Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent…
— Umberto Eco
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world.…
— Umberto Eco
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times.…
— Umberto Eco
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all…
— Zac Efron
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.
— Jesse Eisenberg
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I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me…
— Jesse Eisenberg
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole…
— Eminem
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I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
— Brian Eno
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We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30%…
— Brian Eno
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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
— Nora Ephron
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your…
— Nora Ephron
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If you wish to be a writer, write.
— Epictetus
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The desire to write grows with writing.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
— Paloma Faith
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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
— James Fallows
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One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
— James Fenton
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Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire…
— James Fenton
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There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing…
— James Fenton
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I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe…
— Lupe Fiasco
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