You Write Quotes
619 quotes by 486 authors
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It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down…
— Bruno Mars
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The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that…
— George R. R. Martin
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My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but…
— George R. R. Martin
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When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and…
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me,…
— Tino Sehgal
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided…
— R. Kelly
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Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and…
— Stephen Daldry
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Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've…
— Joey Santiago
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If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.
— Mickey Melchiondo
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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job.…
— Anne Enright
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Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to…
— Fernando Pessoa
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no…
— Ernest Hemingway
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When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
— Ray Bradbury
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You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell…
— Kevin Smith
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Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
— Alice Munro
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I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self…
— Edgar Winter
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
— Yann Martel
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