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Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex Picture Quote #1

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old Picture Quote #1

As a writer, I don’t think it’s my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there’s someone who’ll like it Picture Quote #1

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read Picture Quote #1

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident Picture Quote #1

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible Picture Quote #1

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I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground Picture Quote #1

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was Picture Quote #1

If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour Picture Quote #1

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us Picture Quote #1

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil Picture Quote #1

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful Picture Quote #1

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The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published Picture Quote #1

What you’re trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You’re trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information Picture Quote #1

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money Picture Quote #1

Real programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand Picture Quote #1

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts Picture Quote #1

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness Picture Quote #1

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I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I’m always slightly appalled by it when I do Picture Quote #1

Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It’s just great to let other people carry the narrative Picture Quote #1

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff Picture Quote #1

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation Picture Quote #1

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you’re already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They’re rhetorical, not visual, but it’s the same move Picture Quote #1

Every time I write a book, I’ve probably taken five years off my life Picture Quote #1

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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next Picture Quote #1

At home, I’m lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer Picture Quote #1

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry Picture Quote #1

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet Picture Quote #1

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write Picture Quote #1

I’ve had to write in a different way because I’m not in a bad place and I’m not heartbroken, so there’s no one I want revenge on Picture Quote #1

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Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex (Write Quotes) No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old (Write Quotes) As a writer, I don’t think it’s my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there’s someone who’ll like it (Write Quotes) I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read (Write Quotes) Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident (Write Quotes) The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible (Write Quotes) I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground (Write Quotes) I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was (Write Quotes) If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour (Write Quotes) A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us (Write Quotes) Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil (Write Quotes) What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful (Write Quotes) The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published (Write Quotes) What you’re trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You’re trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information (Write Quotes) Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money (Write Quotes) Real programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand (Write Quotes) Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts (Write Quotes) I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness (Write Quotes) I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I’m always slightly appalled by it when I do (Write Quotes) Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It’s just great to let other people carry the narrative (Write Quotes) Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff (Write Quotes) When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation (Write Quotes) If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you’re already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They’re rhetorical, not visual, but it’s the same move (Write Quotes) Every time I write a book, I’ve probably taken five years off my life (Write Quotes) As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next (Write Quotes) At home, I’m lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer (Write Quotes) One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry (Write Quotes) There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet (Write Quotes) When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write (Write Quotes) I’ve had to write in a different way because I’m not in a bad place and I’m not heartbroken, so there’s no one I want revenge on (Write Quotes)

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