Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
— Suzan-Lori Parks
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book.…
— Walter Dean Myers
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
— Vikas Swarup
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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your…
— Vikas Swarup
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs…
— Vikas Swarup
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
— Vikas Swarup
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not…
— Vikram Seth
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Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other…
— Lee Brice
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I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.
— Miranda Cosgrove
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Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes…
— Miranda Cosgrove
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I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
— James Salter
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You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be…
— James Salter
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If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
— James Salter
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In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
— James Salter
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There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
— James Salter
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My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying…
— James Salter
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As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual…
— Niall Ferguson
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
— Zadie Smith
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad.…
— Imogen Heap
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My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can…
— Imogen Heap
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and…
— Imogen Heap
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I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within…
— Sherwood Schwartz
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I like to write poetry.
— Rebecca Ferguson
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the…
— K'naan
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I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of…
— Daniel Handler
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