Writes Quotes
633 quotes by 541 authors
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Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer;…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.
— Keith Green
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If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a…
— Keith Green
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There are cinéphiles and cinéphages. Truffaut is a cinéphile. A cinéphage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and writes down the…
— Henri Langlois
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The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.
— Giovannino Guareschi
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He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.
— Kenneth W. Harl
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Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and…
— Marci Shimoff
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No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one…
— Jonathan Messinger
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
— Harper Lee
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When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
— Julio Cortazar
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Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something…
— Steve Carell
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was…
— Akira Kurosawa
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The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code,
— Douglas McIlroy
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I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.
— Steven Zaillian
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No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.
— Patricia Hampl
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Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color is above all…
— Sigbjørn Obstfelder
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A writer is someone who writes!
— Pat Schneider
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Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.
— Pat Schneider
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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.
— Carlos J. Cortes
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