Writes Quotes

633 quotes by 541 authors

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I… — Joyce Rupp
Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages,… — Reginald Heber
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of… — Walker Percy
Every man is a book in which God himself writes. — Victor Hugo
A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness. — Carlo Wolff
Itâ€™s hard to pin down what makes Weissâ€™ music so distinctive. Perhaps itâ€™s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive.… — Carlo Wolff
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any… — Thomas Carlyle
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. — Alfred North Whitehead
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you canâ€™t teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. — Quintilian
Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous… — William Ernest Henley
Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. — George Orwell
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And… — George Orwell
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to… — Samuel Johnson
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity.… — Brooks Atkinson
The God we worship writes his name upon our faces. — Roger Babson
It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no… — Walter Savage Landor
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten… — Alfred North Whitehead
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx;… — Jorge Luis Borges

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