Writes Quotes

633 quotes by 538 authors

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. — Umberto Eco
Every artist writes his own autobiography. — Havelock Ellis
I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is… — Tina Fey
I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she… — Kathleen Hanna
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's… — Erica Jong
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. — Garrison Keillor
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. — Omar Khayyam
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time… — Karl Kraus
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his… — Jon Landau
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. — Martin Luther
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco… — Wynton Marsalis
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever. — Chris Martin
I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers,… — George R. R. Martin
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. — V.S. Naipaul
I adore anything Michael Alexis writes. — Rachel Nichols
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned… — Flannery O'Connor
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. — Flannery O'Connor
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost. — Joyce Carol Oates
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her. — Yoko Ono

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