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I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly onto my computer. It used to be the room where my two sons used to sleep with the dog and the cat, but now it's all mine. It has pictures of art from my books on the walls.
Eve Bunting
Tags: Where Own Now
I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
Flo Rida
Tags: Time Even Write
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Tags: People Me Never
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!
Tristan Wilds
Tags: Good Poetry You
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
Tags: Me Write Writing
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I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.


Robert Smith
I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.
Francine Rivers
Tags: Faith About Life
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
David Sedaris
Tags: About Always Very
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
John Thorn
Tags: Just Had Never
Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
Patricia Polacco
Tags: Know Very Want
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Jack Prelutsky
Tags: Only Where First
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.


Walter Dean Myers
Tags: People About Want
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Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write.


Nicole Appleton
Tags: Good You Any
With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
Tamora Pierce
Tags: Because Know Am
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.
Kristin Armstrong
Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
Hans Zimmer
Tags: Just Because Life
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
Lisa Scottoline
Tags: Women Legal About
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino
Tags: Good Think Really
I don't write about love because it makes for easy, passive heroes. I write about how love makes my characters more autonomous, more self-possessed, more opinionated and powerful. I write about characters who pursue relationships that make them the people they want to become. I write about love as a superpower.
Lauren Kate
Tags: People About Who
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I write what I write.


Umberto Eco
Tags: Write I Write