Writes Quotes

633 quotes by 519 authors

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of… — Lurlene McDaniel
I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can… — Rose McGowan
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think… — Leo Ornstein
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. — Andrej Pejic
We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person. — Adam Rich
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is. — Roland Barthes
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that… — Nadine Gordimer
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. — Uma Thurman
I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes… — Jhonen Vasquez
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a… — Jennifer Weiner
No person writes to win awards. — Mo Yan
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the… — Will Ferrell
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart… — Maximus the Confessor
It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with… — Chris Messina
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical. — Lisel Mueller
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. — Vanessa Marano
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it,… — Joy Williams
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of… — Marge Piercy
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. — Breyten Breytenbach

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