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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Groucho Marx
Book
Mind
Half
Everybody
Write
New
Practically
Does
York
New York
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
H. L. Mencken
Giving
Feeling
Relieved
Attain
Write
Tension
Cow
Achieved
Order
Which
Function
Milk
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
Harry Stack Sullivan
Life
You
Chapter
Write
Emotional
Emotional Life
Written
Along
Go
Childhood
Cement
Your
Each
There are a lot of great love stories. It's just the best thing. Why wouldn't you write about it? Why wouldn't you want to read about it? But it's hard to write about. It's weird to have such a powerful and universal feeling and hope that you can write that and make it real for people.
Isabel Gillies
Love
Hope
Best
Great
You
People
Feeling
Great Love
About
Write
Weird
Powerful
Make
Read
Real
Lot
Just
Love Stories
Want
Stories
Hard
Why
Thing
Universal
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard
Fool
Genius
Write
Takes
Real
Sell
Any
Novel
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
Me
Book
Three
Beauty
Add
Other
Hundred
Magnificent
Purpose
Write
Than
Estate
Acres
Reason
Now
Four
Belongs
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
James Schuyler
Myself
Poetry
Write
Never
Well
Any
Going
Certainly
I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Me
Speak
Result
Mother
Language
Consider
Bengali
Paradoxically
Perceived
Write
Perfectly
Between
Know
Accent
Read
Without
Mother Tongue
Always
How
Foreign
Foreign Language
Authority
Even
Tongue
I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.
Jodi Picoult
Time
You
Too Much
College
Before
Believe
Think
Too
Too Much Time
Paper
About
Having
Write
Writer
Had
Always
Block
Due
Blocked
Were
Itself
Fix
Hands
Manage
Much
Your
Night
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
John Cheever
Alone
You
Kiss
Write
Like
Reader
Without
Precisely
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
Kat Graham
Love
Moving On
Broken
Woman
Heart
Independent Woman
Love Songs
Independent
Broken Heart
About
More
Write
Songs
Up
Than
Getting
Being
Moving
Being In Love
Even
Desire
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?
Ken Robinson
You
Opportunity
Matter
Would
Tried
Write
Never
Had
Picked
Talent
Talents
Know
Instrument
Partly
How
Sailing
Passions
Been
Discover
Up
Fiction
Whether
Teach
Your
Things
We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.
Layne Staley
Ourselves
About
Write
Know
Because
Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?'
Lin-Manuel Miranda
You
Every
Think
Once
Out
Fraud
Something
Finish
Through
Write
Never
Go
What If
Anytime
While
Create
Created
Many
Actually
Phase
Received
Phases
Set
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.
Lorrie Moore
Life
Words
Little Things
Too Much
Invent
Before
Real Life
Petty
Thief
Too
Drawing
Running
Running Away
Invented
Write
Take
Make
Because
Am
Real
Been
Falsely
Up
Accused
Want
Place
Little
Mean
Much
Away
Hardly
Things
Start
I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
Mac DeMarco
Life
Music
Time
Myself
People
Simple
Own
Relate
Everybody
Lyrics
Way
Melodies
Ways
Pretty
Something
Could
Write
Songs
Open-Ended
Piece
Make
Trying
Same
Maybe
Same Time
Different
Want
Interested
Them
Keep
Different Ways
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
Malcolm Cowley
Good
Book
Be Kind
Criticism
Considerate
Kind
Bad
Write
Just
Your
Good Book
Hard
Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.
Martha Gellhorn
War
Somebody
See
About
Could
Write
Know
Understand
Said
How
Did
Anything
Then
Should
Suggested
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
Mary Oliver
Morning
You
Wait
Wake Up
Important
Lose
Gone
Down
Think
Thinking
Rule
Way
Out
Something
Write
Instantly
Until
Line
Were
Wake
Up
Very
Things
It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
Maurice Gibb
Alone
You
Together
Song
Only
Write
Very
Get
Jamming
Hard
At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor's note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there's something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that.
Meghan Markle
Beautiful
Time
Day
Doctor
End Of The Day
Girl
Incredibly
Type
Paper
Pen
About
Something
Guy
Write
He
Put
Takes
Like
Looks
End
Chicken
Going
Scratch
Romantic
Whether
Scribble
Note
Letter
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
Michael Haneke
Work
Me
People
Dark
Think
Chap
Parallel
Case
Absolute
Write
Jolly
Between
Gloomy
Am
Expect
Artist
Romantic
After
Then
Should
So what do you desire to do? What do you really want to do as a person? You need to stop and document that; write it down; make a plan; and then God says, 'I'll direct your steps.'
Myles Munroe
God
You
Down
Says
Direct
Write
Steps
Document
Make
Person
Stop
Want
Plan
Then
Really
Your
Desire
Need
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
Nadia Boulanger
Life
Cleaning
Windows
Write
Attention
Masterpiece
Denied
Trying
Lack
Whether
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
Neil Gaiman
Best
Needs
You
Matter
Honestly
Other
Rules
Tell
Write
Written
Sure
Any
Story
Your
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Paul McCartney
Me
Beatles
Somebody
Myth
Sit
Pool
Down
Swimming
Say
John
Write
Said
Were
Huge
Literally
Used
Swimming Pool
Now
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