One Writes Quotes

50 quotes by 46 authors

• No one writes about the emotional things you go through. — Jimmy Chamberlin
• The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but… — Peter Carey
• It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country. — Jules Renard
• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. — Beatrice Webb
• Each one writes history according to his convenience. — Jose Rizal
• One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost. — Joyce Carol Oates
• I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. — Tom Stoppard
• The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in… — Tim Dorsey
• I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. — Anais Nin
• one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• [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… — Michel Foucault
• with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
• One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic
• In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind… — Samuel R. Delany
• One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and… — David Mitchell
• No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer
• Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to… — Anais Nin
• One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter,… — James A. Baldwin
• you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing… — Susan Cain

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 Jackie Collins
• 1 One Writes Quote by Italo Calvino
• 1 One Writes Quote by Deborah Eisenberg
• 1 One Writes Quote by Peter Davison
• 1 One Writes Quote by Stephen Dobyns
• 1 One Writes Quote by Stewart O'Nan
• 1 One Writes Quote by Gerald Jay Sussman
• 1 One Writes Quote by David Sedaris
• 1 One Writes Quote by Jonathan Messinger
• 1 One Writes Quote by Ritu Ghatourey
• 1 One Writes Quote by Julio Cortazar
• 1 One Writes Quote by Isaac Asimov
• 1 One Writes Quote by Vince Flynn
• 1 One Writes Quote by Quintilian
• 1 One Writes Quote by Lisel Mueller
• 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