#i write

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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I write what's given me to write. ↗

— Philip Levine

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I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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

— Loretta Lynn

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I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

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I write about what I know. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

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That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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