The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book” — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I… — Caroline Thompson Copy Share Image
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together. — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
I feel upset when someone writes something which isn't true about me. I cry, sulk, fight with everybody and the next day… — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well.… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past.… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I don't know that I 'look up' to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“A taciturn writer, for instance, might produce only one short poem every ten years, which is unlikely to annoy anyone, whereas someone… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I live in a world in which 40 men control wealth equal to that of nearly 80 countries, where to maintain their… — Cecile Pineda Copy Share Image
Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
![“[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1bb/michel-foucault-1134_able_raymond-roussel-said-that-after-his-firs_1123161.jpg)
