Quotes with write

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  • Amy Winehouse If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.
    Amy Winehouse
    English singer and songwriter (1983 - 2011)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Billy Joel In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Will Rogers In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Calvin Trillin In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Billy Strayhorn In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Bill Conti In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
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  • Bill Dedman In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Benny Blanco Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive type of guy. I try to put my female hat on and think how a female would think. If I'm watching 'The Notebook,' I'm definitely gonna cry. I cried during 'E.T.' too.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Henry Miller It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Michael Ondaatje It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Juvenal It is difficult not to write satire.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Ezra Pound It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Stephen Hawking It is extremely important to me to write for children.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Alice Walker It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's ''mature'' critics often are.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Benito Mussolini It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • David Leavitt It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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