Write Like Quotes
49 quotes by 49 authors
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I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before…
— Erykah Badu
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I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it.…
— Guy Clark
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,…
— Oscar Wilde
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and…
— Ray Bradbury
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If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.
— Isaac Babel
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I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic…
— Lester Bangs
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STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE
— Charles Ghigna
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For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
— William Styron
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic…
— Zach Braff
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The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything…
— Donald Harington
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If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.
— James M. Cain
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Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.
— James Scott Bell
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Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.
— Anna Kamienska
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Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you…
— Clive Barker
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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
— Robertson Davies
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I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
— Don Henley
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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can…
— Frederik Pohl
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist,…
— Greil Marcus
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