#i write

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. ↗

— John Updike

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I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. ↗

— Jack Vance

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When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. ↗

— Evan Dando

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I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

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When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. ↗

— Wietse Venema

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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. ↗

— Ben Folds

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I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again. ↗

— Tony Visconti

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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

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