They Write Quotes

121 quotes by 116 authors

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving… — Sloane Crosley
I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they… — Eric Davis
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people. — Paloma Faith
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. — Karl Kraus
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own… — Ashton Kutcher
I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write… — Ashton Kutcher
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your… — Philip Larkin
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write… — Doris Lessing
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of… — Laura Linney
I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's… — Paul McCartney
I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write… — Nicki Minaj
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators… — Jo Nesbo
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions. — Salman Rushdie
Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others.… — Simon Sinek
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who… — Tom Stoppard
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write… — Paul Theroux
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. — Andy Warhol
If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey? — Steven Wright
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. — Howard Rheingold

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