Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
— Jason Isbell
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I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.
— Rick Atkinson
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I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.
— Shantel VanSanten
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Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need…
— Anurag Kashyap
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Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
— Salman Rushdie
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Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do…
— Alan Bennett
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If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research…
— Jimmy Breslin
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I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there were…
— John Mellencamp
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
— Umberto Eco
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My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.
— Unknown Author
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I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
— Gregory David Roberts
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I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so that they may…
— Angeles Mastretta
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The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need…
— Colm Toibin
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With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans…
— Athol Fugard
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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
— Joan Baez
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My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make…
— Mark Haddon
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I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be…
— Chris Cornell
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I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.
— Rita Dove
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
— Garry Shandling
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Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and…
— Adam Jones
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I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.
— Alain de Botton
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Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear,…
— Alain de Botton
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I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it.…
— William Gibson
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Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight;…
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with…
— Fiona Apple
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