Writes Quotes · Page 2

Every team writes its own story.

— Martin Brodeur

One writes in order to feel.

— Muriel Rukeyser

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

One writes not by will but by surrender.

— Erica Jong

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

— Tillie Olsen

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

— Carlos J. Cortes

Life writes the best stories.

— Niko Kovac

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

— Neel Mukherjee

Anything that Osgood Perkins writes, you can sign me up!

— Lucy Boynton

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

— Peter Kreeft

“Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.”

— Samuel Johnson

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

“There is a girl who still writes you; she doesn’t know how not to.”

— Sarah Kay

“Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.”

— Casper Silk

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

— James M. Barrie

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

— Samuel E. Morison

For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia,…

— Gerry Beckley

“My pen writes the letters of your name, the page quivers, like fish in a lake. كنت أكتب قصيدة كانت ترتعش كالأسماك في البحيرة حين يلامسها إسمك”

— Amany Al-Hallaq

“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Connie Willis

“The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.”

— Italo Calvino

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

— Philip Pullman

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

— Anonymous

My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it…

— Josephine de La Baume

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and…

— Robin Wasserman

It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know…

— Javier Marías

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got.…

— Alvah Bessie

I write back to every fan who writes me, which is kind of a full-time job in some regards 'cause I don't…

— Adam Green

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist;…

— Carmen Ejogo

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing…

— Bob Shacochis

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have…

— Isabel Allende

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,…

— Junot Diaz

A writer always writes.

— Don Roff

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

— Havelock Ellis

The story sometimes writes you into a corner.

— George Saunders

Everybody writes a book too many.

— Anonymous

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

— Alfred Kazin

A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.

— Vikrant Parsai

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

— Patrick Modiano

When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.

— Katherine Ryan