Quotes about Writes

Writes very good books; about very bad things. Votes: 3

April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets. Votes: 3

I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript. Votes: 3

Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form. Votes: 3

Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place. Votes: 3

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing. Votes: 3

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true. Votes: 3

A writer always writes. Votes: 0

Power writes history, not scribes Votes: 0

Cameron Rogers writes like a magician. Votes: 0

Every artist writes his own autobiography. Votes: 0

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes. Votes: 0

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. Votes: 0

Every artist writes his own autobiography Votes: 0

Every ist writes his own autobiography. Votes: 0

I adore anything Michael Alexis writes. Votes: 0

One writes to find words' meanings. Votes: 0

Nature never writes a blind hand. Votes: 0

He who writes badly thinks badly Votes: 0

Everybody writes a book too many. Votes: 0

Everybody writes a book too many. Votes: 0

No person writes to win awards. Votes: 0

One writes in order to feel ... Votes: 0

A writer is someone who writes! Votes: 0

One writes fables in periods of oppression. Votes: 0

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse. Votes: 0

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines. Votes: 0

Every woman who writes is a survivor. Votes: 0

A woman who writes feels too much. Votes: 0

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction. Votes: 0

Each one writes history according to his convenience. Votes: 0

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive. Votes: 0

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood. Votes: 0

He writes nothing whose writings are not read. Votes: 0

The real writer is one who really writes. Votes: 0

A writer writes what other people only think. Votes: 0

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. Votes: 0

The ear writes my poems, not the mind. Votes: 0

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate. Votes: 0

Shaw writes as if it were always midday. Votes: 0

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. Votes: 0

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose. Votes: 0

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone. Votes: 0

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes. Votes: 0

Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls. Votes: 0

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels. Votes: 0

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. Votes: 0

One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience, Votes: 0

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. Votes: 0

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on. Votes: 0

Your Thinking writes your Future &Your Action makes it. Votes: 0

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction. Votes: 0

He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate. Votes: 0

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself. Votes: 0

I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday. Votes: 0

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about. Votes: 0

One writes to teach, to move or to delight. Votes: 0

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page. Votes: 0

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood. Votes: 0

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays Votes: 0

Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut. Votes: 0

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies. Votes: 0

No one writes about the emotional things you go through. Votes: 0

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash. Votes: 0

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life. Votes: 0

No one who writes a good book is really dead. Votes: 0

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view. Votes: 0

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. Votes: 0

The more a man writes, the more he can write. Votes: 0

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography. Votes: 0

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me. Votes: 0

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. Votes: 0

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen. Votes: 0

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. Votes: 0

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays. Votes: 0

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. Votes: 0

The God we worship writes his name upon our faces. Votes: 0

Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha. Votes: 0

Every man is a book in which God himself writes. Votes: 0

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish Votes: 0

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me. Votes: 0

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript Votes: 0

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers. Votes: 0

A word only writes Its night and rides Its dream. Votes: 0

Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking. Votes: 0

Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem. Votes: 0

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"... Votes: 0

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. Votes: 0

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it. Votes: 0

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending. Votes: 0

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes. Votes: 0

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue. Votes: 0

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters? Votes: 0

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals. Votes: 0

Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you. Votes: 0

Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart Votes: 0

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. Votes: 0

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the." Votes: 0

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. Votes: 0

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel. Votes: 0

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance. Votes: 0

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal. Votes: 0

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is FOCUS Votes: 0

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. Votes: 0

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read. Votes: 0

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. Votes: 0

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code, Votes: 0

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. Votes: 0

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters. Votes: 0

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. Votes: 0

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. Votes: 0

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down. Votes: 0

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. Votes: 0

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. Votes: 0

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like. Votes: 0

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence. Votes: 0

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books. Votes: 0

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. Votes: 0

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. Votes: 0

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. Votes: 0

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. Votes: 0

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. Votes: 0

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. Votes: 0

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone. Votes: 0

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. Votes: 0

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches. Votes: 0

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is. Votes: 0

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy. Votes: 0

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. Votes: 0

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning. Votes: 0

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. Votes: 0

Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving. Votes: 0

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. Votes: 0

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared. Votes: 0

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him. Votes: 0

I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs. Votes: 0

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs. Votes: 0

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work. Votes: 0

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing. Votes: 0

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. Votes: 0

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. Votes: 0

My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan. Votes: 0

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. Votes: 0

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. Votes: 0

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. Votes: 0

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. Votes: 0

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man. Votes: 0

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal. Votes: 0

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Votes: 0

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. Votes: 0

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books. Votes: 0

The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story. Votes: 0

He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unsuspecting doll. Votes: 0

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. Votes: 0

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book. Votes: 0

Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life Votes: 0

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it. Votes: 0

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race. Votes: 0

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong Votes: 0

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them. Votes: 0

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book. Votes: 0

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes. Votes: 0

Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable. Votes: 0

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. Votes: 0

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time Votes: 0

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. Votes: 0

Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song. Votes: 0

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. Votes: 0

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her. Votes: 0

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. Votes: 0

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice. Votes: 0

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. Votes: 0

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version. Votes: 0

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans. Votes: 0

Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating Votes: 0

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." Votes: 0

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books. Votes: 0

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. Votes: 0

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others. Votes: 0

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. Votes: 0

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air. Votes: 0

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. Votes: 0

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes. Votes: 0

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. Votes: 0

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost. Votes: 0

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning. Votes: 0

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff. Votes: 0

Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries. Votes: 0

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. Votes: 0

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose. Votes: 0

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. Votes: 0

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred. Votes: 0

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. Votes: 0

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war. Votes: 0

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war, Votes: 0

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page. Votes: 0

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. Votes: 0

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out. Votes: 0

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around. Votes: 0

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor. Votes: 0

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world. Votes: 0

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. Votes: 0

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.] Votes: 0

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. Votes: 0

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. Votes: 0

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me. Votes: 0

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf. Votes: 0

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person. Votes: 0

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. Votes: 0

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. Votes: 0

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Votes: 0

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way. Votes: 0

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. Votes: 0

Just as a painter paints,and a ponderer ponders,a writer writes,and a wanderer wanders. Votes: 0

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. Votes: 0

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. Votes: 0

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. Votes: 0

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. Votes: 0

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about. Votes: 0

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. Votes: 0

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. Votes: 0

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. Votes: 0

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. Votes: 0

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. Votes: 0

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. Votes: 0

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. Votes: 0

[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter. Votes: 0

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. Votes: 0

I wanted to be Carrie Vaughn the awesome writer, not the chick who writes the 'Kitty' books. Votes: 0

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. Votes: 0

I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently. Votes: 0

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs." Votes: 0

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart. Votes: 0

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. Votes: 0

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are. Votes: 0

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country. Votes: 0

John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that. Votes: 0

I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks Votes: 0

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. Votes: 0

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people. Votes: 0

Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment. Votes: 0

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. Votes: 0

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Votes: 0

So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word. Votes: 0

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. Votes: 0

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably. Votes: 0

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' Votes: 0

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together. Votes: 0

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. Votes: 0

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. Votes: 0

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine. Votes: 0

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind. Votes: 0

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it. Votes: 0

The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act," writes Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus." Votes: 0

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head. Votes: 0

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. Votes: 0

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. Votes: 0

In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies. Votes: 0

Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest. Votes: 0

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene. Votes: 0

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center. Votes: 0

When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem. Votes: 0

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading. Votes: 0

First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife. Votes: 0

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care. Votes: 0

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. Votes: 0

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. Votes: 0

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ... Votes: 0

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. Votes: 0

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. Votes: 0

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us. Votes: 0

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it. Votes: 0

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. Votes: 0

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie. Votes: 0

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. Votes: 0

She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen. Votes: 0

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. Votes: 0

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. Votes: 0

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. Votes: 0

Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. Votes: 0

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. Votes: 0

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. Votes: 0

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own Votes: 0

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes. Votes: 0

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes. Votes: 0

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. Votes: 0

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? Votes: 0

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors. Votes: 0

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. Votes: 0

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman. Votes: 0

If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that. Votes: 0

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness. Votes: 0

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? Votes: 0

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. Votes: 0

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet. Votes: 0

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves. Votes: 0

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. Votes: 0

No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. Votes: 0

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. Votes: 0

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror. Votes: 0

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself. Votes: 0

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes. Votes: 0

I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing. Votes: 0

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore. Votes: 0

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. Votes: 0

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. Votes: 0

Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately. Votes: 0

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. Votes: 0

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. Votes: 0

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. Votes: 0

You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself. Votes: 0

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. Votes: 0

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person. Votes: 0

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. Votes: 0

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there. Votes: 0

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. Votes: 0

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. Votes: 0

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. Votes: 0

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love. Votes: 0

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. Votes: 0

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love." Votes: 0

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. Votes: 0

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song. Votes: 0

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. Votes: 0

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted. Votes: 0

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. Votes: 0

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. Votes: 0

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both. Votes: 0

Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories... Votes: 0

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. Votes: 0

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. Votes: 0

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar. Votes: 0

He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice. Votes: 0

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about. Votes: 0

Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes Votes: 0

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star Votes: 0

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me. Votes: 0

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem. Votes: 0

The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust? Votes: 0

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]. Votes: 0

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever. Votes: 0

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes. Votes: 0

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. Votes: 0

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. Votes: 0

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text. Votes: 0

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it. Votes: 0

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music. Votes: 0

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails Votes: 0

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars. Votes: 0

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift. Votes: 0

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. Votes: 0

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. Votes: 0

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors. Votes: 0

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant. Votes: 0

A wise woman has already a riteWhere she knows right from left.She usually writes when she's rightAnd always leaves before she's left. Votes: 0

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. Votes: 0

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. Votes: 0

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album. Votes: 0

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. Votes: 0

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. Votes: 0

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. Votes: 0

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. Votes: 0

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. Votes: 0

I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side. Votes: 0

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded. Votes: 0

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory. Votes: 0

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. Votes: 0

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes. Votes: 0

I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me. Votes: 0

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted. Votes: 0

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. Votes: 0

One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner. Votes: 0

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that. Votes: 0

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly. Votes: 0

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity. Votes: 0

What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next. Votes: 0

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself. Votes: 0

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness. Votes: 0

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand ... Votes: 0

When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive? Votes: 0

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written. Votes: 0

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. Votes: 0

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical. Votes: 0

Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing. Votes: 0

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease. Votes: 0

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. Votes: 0

No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me. Votes: 0

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. Votes: 0

The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions. Votes: 0

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well. Votes: 0

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. Votes: 0

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. Votes: 0

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. Votes: 0

I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics. Votes: 0

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes. Votes: 0

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art. Votes: 0

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory. Votes: 0

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't. Votes: 0

If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands. Votes: 0

If you text 'I love you' and the person writes back an emoji - no matter what that emoji is, they don't love you back. Votes: 0

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two Votes: 0

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about. Votes: 0

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. Votes: 0

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. Votes: 0

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. Votes: 0

No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace. Votes: 0

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene. Votes: 0

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. Votes: 0

Southern novelist Walker Percy writes in Love in the Ruins, We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.6 Votes: 0

I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess. Votes: 0

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant. Votes: 0

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me. Votes: 0

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. Votes: 0

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly. Votes: 0

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author. Votes: 0

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility. Votes: 0

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself. Votes: 0

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment. Votes: 0

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty. Votes: 0

Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments. Votes: 0

I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar. Votes: 0

When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism. Votes: 0

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career. Votes: 0

In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments. Votes: 0

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear. Votes: 0

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10. Votes: 0

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul. Votes: 0

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. Votes: 0

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience. Votes: 0

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today. Votes: 0

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations. Votes: 0

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power. Votes: 0

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies. Votes: 0

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script. Votes: 0

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. Votes: 0

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking. Votes: 0

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea. Votes: 0

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that there is a limit to what that accomplishes. Votes: 0

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us... Votes: 0

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them. Votes: 0

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes. Votes: 0

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes. Votes: 0

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight. Votes: 0

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader Votes: 0

She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl Votes: 0

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might. Votes: 0

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. Votes: 0

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. Votes: 0

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it. Votes: 0

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics. Votes: 0

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! Votes: 0

I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches... but no one ever writes about your rhythm playing Votes: 0

I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2. Votes: 0

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships. Votes: 0

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual. Votes: 0

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows. Votes: 0

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Votes: 0

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind. Votes: 0

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows. Votes: 0

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write. Votes: 0

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. Votes: 0

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Votes: 0

Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about. Votes: 0

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike. Votes: 0

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play. Votes: 0

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them? Votes: 0

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. Votes: 0

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare. Votes: 0

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that. Votes: 0

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind. Votes: 0

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face. Votes: 0

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating. Votes: 0

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult. Votes: 0

No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money. Votes: 0

I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down. Votes: 0

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. Votes: 0

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. Votes: 0

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. Votes: 0

I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes. Votes: 0

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share. Votes: 0

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance Votes: 0

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content. Votes: 0

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. Votes: 0

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully. Votes: 0

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them. Votes: 0

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.' Votes: 0

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. Votes: 0

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both. Votes: 0

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer. Votes: 0

My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself. Votes: 0

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet. Votes: 0

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book. Votes: 0

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. Votes: 0

A friend and I started a band together. I am kind of learning how to play instruments. We write stuff over Skype or e-mail. I send one part and he writes another. Votes: 0

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean. Votes: 0

We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does. Votes: 0

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away? Votes: 0