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633 Writes quotes by 519 unique authors

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
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

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