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  • Benjamin Disraeli When I want to read a book, I write one
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Boman Irani When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Ben Okri When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Brandon Sanderson When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Anne Rice When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Bruce Dickinson When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Billy Collins When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Grantland Rice When the great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
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  • Umberto Eco When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • C. K. Williams When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Bob Beamon When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Barry Gibb When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Michael LeBoeuf When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
    Michael LeBoeuf
    American business author and management professor (1942 - )
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  • Benny Blanco When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens, I never write a hit song.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Beau Willimon When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Billy Gardell Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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