Writes Quotes

633 quotes by 541 authors

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the." — Mary McCarthy
Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which… — Paul R. Hill
As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is… — Boudleaux Bryant
The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song.... Not that I… — Zach Condon
Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heartâ€™s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears… — Barbara Hamby
Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She… — Miroslav Penkov
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. — Stanley Kubrick
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into… — Paul Muldoon
Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote… — Sharon Olds
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because… — Andre Bazin
Time is the best author. Â It always writes the perfect ending. — Charlie Chaplin
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist… — Zelda Popkin
In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary… — Ursula Hegi
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. — Lorin Stein
In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors… — Cheryl Rainfield
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks — Paul Samuelson
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war, — Kevin Powers
I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said… — Jackie Collins
Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will… — Harvey Pekar
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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