Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why…
— Hans Zimmer
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I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those…
— Wilfrid
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I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage.…
— Mick Taylor
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When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are…
— Francoise Hardy
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And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in…
— Norton Juster
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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept…
— Norton Juster
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing…
— A. J. Jacobs
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Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God,…
— Antonia Fraser
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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need…
— Nicole Krauss
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My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has…
— Guy Kawasaki
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of…
— Candace Bushnell
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
— A J Liebling
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Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as…
— James Turrell
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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
— Roger Ascham
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I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.
— Linda Tripp
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
— Alice Hoffman
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well…
— Alice Hoffman
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies…
— Alice Hoffman
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There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex…
— William McDonough
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To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
— Erich Auerbach
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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
— Jean M. Auel
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Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to…
— Tina Brown
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I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write.…
— Unknown Author
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in…
— Edmund White
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