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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Life doesn't just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst.
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
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.
I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.
Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.
When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.