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" "I write" Quotes

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Write Strength Characters Afraid
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I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them

Write Experiences Mind About
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Write Group Change Consciousness
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I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

Write Music Time Lyrics
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Write Gift God Help
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I write because I want to have more than one life.

I write Want to Have more One life
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More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's what we draw from.

Write about I know The experiences My life
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I believe what I write to be the truth,every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

Believe The truth Every man Indifferent
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live

Writing Mode Write I live
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I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

Write Against violence Fascism Person
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Cases Commonly Experience Fire
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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

About Because Discipline Great
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I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

Write abundantly Next step Struggle
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When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Absolutely Always Apologize Bullying
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Goes Head I Write Lot
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Writing Simple Justice Trying
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
I Write Paid Pay Want
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I write music with an exclamation point!

Exclamation Music Point Write
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Another Arrange Constraint Design
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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

Always Bed Been Closest
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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
Play Short Stories Write
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I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

Feeling Get Happy IWrite
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

Always Because Day Distraction
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

Adult BeReal Buy Detail
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
Afraid Back Books Feelings
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Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Autobiographical Better Certainly Everything
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Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

Because Complex Generally How
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I write my songs because I've lived them.

Because I Write Lived Songs
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I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Angst Appreciate Boring Cool
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

Write funny Wife laugh Right track
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

After Bored Boring Drawer
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I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

Corrections Cross Difficulty Hand
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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Every ISee IWrite Inspired
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I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

Writing People Black Enemy
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My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

Night Write Day Precious
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Acres Add Beauty Belongs
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All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'

About Enough Food IWrite
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Ask Book Ever IWrite
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Hard I Write Indian Long
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I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Got Move Move On Paragraph
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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

Cutting Finished ISee IWrite
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I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

About Any Belief Believe
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Added Change Couple Eventually
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

Always Basic Decided I Write
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

About Beings Constant Human
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

Audience Book I Write Perceive
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

Actually Material Much Out
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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