He Writes Quotes
85 quotes by 73 authors
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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only…
— Julie Klausner
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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…
— George Steiner
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The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was…
— Neil Gaiman
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time…
— Karl Kraus
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James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his…
— Jon Landau
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I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers,…
— George R. R. Martin
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
— Flannery O'Connor
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
— George Bernard Shaw
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You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of…
— Henry Miller
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A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2.…
— George Orwell
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While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
— Margaret Atwood
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All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of…
— Brigham Young
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
— William Faulkner
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Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?†Then he rips off a piece of paper and picks up the…
— Susane Colasanti
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Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.
— Josh Lanyon
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Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.
— Anais Nin
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It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes.…
— Raymond Carver
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