#i write

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I write out of my intellectual experience. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. ↗

— Gay Talese

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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for. ↗

— Harold Budd

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I write about my life. ↗

— George Michael

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Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time. ↗

— Jim Varney

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I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. ↗

— Michael McKean

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