Writes Quotes

633 quotes by 541 authors

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. — William Faulkner
All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their… — Margaret Atwood
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]. — Kurt Vonnegut
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes… — Mary Ann Shaffer
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for… — Philip Jose Farmer
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't… — Kim Addonizio
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our… — Gaston Bachelard
Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her.… — Andy Warhol
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of… — Flannery O'Connor
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish… — Margaret Atwood
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind… — Samuel R. Delany
My Master... Say all you wish of me. It does not matter to me:Shallow.. Stupid.. Crazy.. Simple minded. It does not concern me anymore. For… — Nizar Qabbani
One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?â€ Then he rips off a piece of paper and picks up the… — Susane Colasanti
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks.… — David Nicholls
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. Whatever mysterious plan God had… — Robin Jones Gunn
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries. — Josh Lanyon

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