The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“If anything one writes isn't still being talked about ten years later then it wasn't worth writing in the first place.” — Howard Hinton Copy Share Image
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself. — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Because if someone writes something and they have decided this is what it is, it's my job to make it work unless… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that a place exists which is not economically or politically indebted to all the vileness and compromise. That is not… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’." (on Lillian Hellman)” — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says. — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
