Writes Quotes

633 Writes quotes by 519 unique authors

One writes fables in periods of oppression. — Italo Calvino
Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift. — Tom Odell
No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people. — Linda Lael Miller
John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that. — Andre Previn
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. — P.J. O'Rourke
The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the… — Emily Rose
Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls. — Holliday Grainger
I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work… — Lee Hall
Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice. — Raymond E. Feist
Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and… — John Updike
Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner. — Chuck Schumer
I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms.… — Samuel R. Delany
There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic… — Candace Camp
I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his… — Spike Jonze
I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman… — Virginia Henley
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

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