Writes Quotes

633 quotes by 519 authors

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but… — Joy Williams
Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place. — Wright Morris
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood. — Norman MacCaig
Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or… — Michael Koryta
Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been… — Clive James
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written. — Elizabeth Kenny
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals. — Marcel Proust
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book… — Mark Twain
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes. — August Wilson
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes… — Gloria Naylor
God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even… — Pope Benedict XVI
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it. — Luigi Pirandello
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails — Charles Spurgeon
If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others. — Richard Eberhart
Every woman who writes is a survivor. — Tillie Olsen
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we… — Art Garfunkel
Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment. — Julianne MacLean
Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with… — Alan Ryan
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the… — Jack Spicer
Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly… — Omar N. Bradley

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