One Writes Quotes

50 quotes by 46 authors

• Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
• One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• One writes to teach, to move or to delight. — Rodolphus Agricola
• As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. — Van Wyck Brooks
• No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be… — Stanley Ellin
• One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin
• One writes to find words' meanings. — Joy Williams
• One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience, — James A. Baldwin
• What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into… — Paul Muldoon
• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said… — Jackie Collins
• 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. — Deborah Eisenberg
• One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. — Stephen Dobyns
• In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and… — Gerald Jay Sussman
• No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one… — Jonathan Messinger
• When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes. — Julio Cortazar
• We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to… — Isaac Asimov
• No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily similar… — Vince Flynn
• From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. — Quintilian
• 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. — Lisel Mueller
• I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. — Breyten Breytenbach

Who Wrote These One Writes Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 50 One Writes Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 One Writes Quotes by Anais Nin
• 2 One Writes Quotes by James A. Baldwin
• 1 One Writes Quote by Breyten Breytenbach
• 1 One Writes Quote by Jimmy Chamberlin
• 1 One Writes Quote by Peter Carey
• 1 One Writes Quote by Jules Renard
• 1 One Writes Quote by Beatrice Webb
• 1 One Writes Quote by Jose Rizal
• 1 One Writes Quote by Joyce Carol Oates
• 1 One Writes Quote by Tom Stoppard
• 1 One Writes Quote by Tim Dorsey
• 1 One Writes Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 One Writes Quote by Michel Foucault
• 1 One Writes Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
• 1 One Writes Quote by Ted Solotaroff
• 1 One Writes Quote by Charles Simic
• 1 One Writes Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 One Writes Quote by Samuel R. Delany
• 1 One Writes Quote by Rodolphus Agricola
• 1 One Writes Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• 1 One Writes Quote by Van Wyck Brooks
• 1 One Writes Quote by David Mitchell
• 1 One Writes Quote by Stanley Ellin
• 1 One Writes Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1 One Writes Quote by Alfred Kazin