Writes Quotes
633 quotes by 541 authors
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A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
— Bryan Adams
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when…
— James M. Barrie
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of…
— Colbie Caillat
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
— Nick Cave
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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes…
— Henry Walter Bates
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
— Abba Eban
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The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates…
— Frantz Fanon
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An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
— Marilyn vos Savant
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This…
— Julia Cameron
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
— Garrison Keillor
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Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
— Jules Renard
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The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes…
— Arthur Miller
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God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.
— Rumi
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
— Irwin Shaw
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One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or…
— Samuel Smiles
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Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique…
— Lewis Thomas
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She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other…
— Rajneesh
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
— William McFee
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