Quotes 101 till 120 of 555.
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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
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I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There's no need to veil what's happening in the song the way I used to.
My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.The Meaning Of Life -
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
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I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
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