Writes Quotes

633 quotes by 541 authors

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their… — Kevin Spacey
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are… — Valerie June
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately. — Laila Robins
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript. — Richard Steele
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. — Thomas Wolfe
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. — Jules Renard
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases… — Harold Ross
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not… — Julien Green
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play. — Gary Burton
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. — Peter Davison
I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about. — Janice Dickinson
Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says. — John Harvey Kellogg
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. — William Rose Benet
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. — Samuel E. Morison
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor… — Edward Fitzgerald
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter… — Trey Anastasio
Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes… — Wislawa Szymborska
The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life,… — Jeff Tweedy
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what… — John Bolton

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