Writes Quotes

633 Writes quotes by 519 unique authors

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?” 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
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and… — David Mitchell
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To… — Joshua Foer
Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence. — Anais Nin
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes.… — Raymond Carver
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most… — Elwyn Brooks White
No one who writes a good book is really dead. — Walter Moers
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. — Washington Irving
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters. — Lewis Carroll
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music. — Becca Fitzpatrick
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes… — Arthur Miller
I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books. — Paulo Coelho
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very… — Eric Ludy
When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet. — Julia Quinn

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