Writes Quotes

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People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for… — Maud Hart Lovelace
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the… — John Gardner
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and… — Michel Foucault
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a… — Maurice Blanchot
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not… — Margaret Atwood
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic
Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling?… — Mark Oliver Everett
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer
All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of… — Brigham Young
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their… — Dan Brown
I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil… — Sara Gruen
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of… — Naomi Wolf
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because… — Nicole Krauss
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. — Pablo Neruda
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer,… — Marsha Norman

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