#i write

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. ↗

— John Ashbery

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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. ↗

— Ingmar Bergman

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My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. ↗

— Peter Davison

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I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence. ↗

— Colin Dexter

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Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

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I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood. ↗

— Erik Larson

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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach. ↗

— Macklemore

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I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane. ↗

— Kelly Jones

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