Writes Quotes

633 quotes by 519 authors

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. — Khalil Gibran
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes… — Mark Twain
The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in… — Tim Dorsey
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then… — Neil Gaiman
A writer always writes. — Don Roff
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2.… — George Orwell
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a… — S. J. Perelman
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may… — Rebecca Solnit
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself… — Gertrude Stein
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. — Anais Nin
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them,… — Ayn Rand
But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth… — Michael Card
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. — Charles Bukowski
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order… — Michel Foucault
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the… — Jim Goad
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. — Oscar Wilde
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them… — Anne Lamott
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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