You Write Quotes
619 quotes by 498 authors
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I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta…
— Bob Dylan
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If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less self-critical at night;…
— Mark-Anthony Turnage
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When you write a goal down your subconscious brain begins to more actively think about bringing into your life the people, resources and knowledge you…
— Ryan Allis
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If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a…
— Nicholson Baker
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A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps.…
— Marshall Sylver
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Write what you love and love what you write.
— Ray Bradbury
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If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
— Fred Frith
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I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by…
— Sheryl Crow
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I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind,…
— Eduardo Galeano
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I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
— John Grisham
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Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.
— Taylor Swift
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A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
— Harlan Howard
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I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.
— Stephen King
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Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Your life is a blank page. You write on it.
— Donald Miller
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Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.
— Julia Cameron
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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives…
— Seamus Heaney
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Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.
— Natalie Goldberg
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When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.
— Marjorie Holmes
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