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I write music with an exclamation point!
Richard Wagner

Music, Write, Point

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion

Fear, Thinking, Find

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Erica Jong

Writing, Write, Style

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
Mos Def

Life, Time, Experience

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
Lena Dunham

Thinking, Write, Universal

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Two, Away, Keep

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Good, Smart, Loneliness

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
Amy Winehouse

Family, Human, Write

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Amy Winehouse

Past, Write, Song

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
Sebastian Bach

Music, Write, Computer

I write books to find out about things.
Rebecca West

Find, Write, Books

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
Elizabeth Gilbert

Success, Work, Forward

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.
Theo Van Gogh

Through, Light, Write

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
Lenny Kravitz

Whatever, Write, Songs

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
Carl Hiaasen

Life, Time, Real

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.
Jack London

Beauty, Book, Reason

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
Loretta Lynn

Feelings, Write, Song

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
Sarah Jessica Parker

Love, Sex, Write

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.
Ellie Goulding

Time, Future, Before

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.
Ellie Goulding

Time, Down, Sometimes

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Time, Write, Since

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
Erica Jong

Book, Down, Write

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.
Bruce Springsteen

Good, Live, Trying

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
Jeanette Winterson

Change, Write, Group

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Peter De Vries

Morning, Write, Inspired

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben

Care, Write, Anyone

My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.
Fred Durst

Everything, Write, Web

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
Isabel Allende

Love, Reality, Understand

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
Jonathan Kozol

School, Children, Job

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
Jonathan Kozol

Change, Done, Write

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