Person Who Writes Quotes

#1. 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. I think of myself as the kind of person who writes, rather than as one kind of writer or another.

Samuel R. Delany

#2. The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

Edward Abbey

#4. I'm going to be a person who writes stories.

I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.

I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

Kimama Aoboshi

#5. Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

Emmanuel Jal

#6. I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Dean Wesley Smith

#7. A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Clyde Edgerton

#8. A writer is a person who writes.

Actually, it was John Braine's quote in his book HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL. But I use it all the time

Andrew Puckett

#9. I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

Macaulay Culkin

#10. I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music ... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

Thom Yorke

#11. A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

Franz Kafka

#12. words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter, just like the statues of Michelangelo were in the block of marble where they were revealed.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#13. I am not much engaged by the problems of what you might call our day but I am burdened by the particular, the mad person who writes me a letter. It is no longer necessary for them even to write me. I know when someone is thinking of me. I learn to deal with this.

Joan Didion

#14. No one can say where a book comes from, least of all the person who writes it. Books are born out of ignorance, and if they go on living after they are written, it's only to the degree that they cannot be understood.

Paul Auster

#15. I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.

Seth Rogen

#16. Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

Dennis Prager

#17. Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Karl Kraus

#18. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike.

Robin Jones Gunn

#19. When a person has lived alone for a long time, the only way to confirm that they still exist is to express activities and things in an easily shared syntax: this face, these bones that walk, this mouth, this hand that writes.

Valeria Luiselli

#20. No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

Linda Lael Miller

#21. People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.

Charlie Norwood

#22. An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Roald Dahl

#23. Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, I went to college with every person I ever met.

Chris Gardner

#24. I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

Joyce Maynard

#25. When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

Ian MacKaye

#26. James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.

Jon Landau

#27. Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#28. Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.

Hilary Mantel

#29. Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.

Casper Silk

#30. One can learn a lot about a person by the things she writes.

Becky Watson

#31. What one writes is based so much on the kind of person one is, the kind of environment one has had and has now. One doesn't really choose the poetry one writes, one writes the kind of poetry one has to write, or one can write.

Philip Larkin

#32. One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.

Luke Evans

#33. It's really sad that Wonder Woman is, she's really a slave. She belongs to DC. She's not a living person. And so she's at their mercy, and she's at the mercy of whoever writes her and whoever draws her.

Trina Robbins

#34. What kind of persons writes fiction about the past?"
- "The kind of person for whom one lifetime is not enough."

- Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

#35. No person writes to win awards.

Mo Yan

#36. It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

Anton Chekhov

#37. Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. ( ... ) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.

Alan Ryan

#38. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

Michel Foucault

#39. There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

Imogen Heap

#40. You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

Kerry Washington

#41. I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Barbara Kingsolver

#42. This is my situation. I'm the kind of person who, for fun, writes articles called 'Aviation Club Soars into Orbit!' and an unhappy bully I've never heard of is sending out envoys.

Mike Birbiglia

#43. If you text 'I love you' and the person writes back an emoji - no matter what that emoji is, they don't love you back.

Chelsea Peretti

#44. One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

Sean Wilentz

#45. I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

Chris Hillman

#46. There's an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it's self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It's not a tool to understand myself.

Michael Pollan

#47. Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds as much like a memoir as he can make it sound.

John Irving

#48. Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Pamela Stephenson

#49. What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.

Terry Pratchett

#50. My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

Robert Bly

#51. We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

Adam Rich

#52. No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

Leo Ornstein

#53. Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Wislawa Szymborska

#54. Whatever you do repeatedly," he writes, "has the power to shape you, has the power to make you over into a different person - even if you're not totally engaged' in every minute!

Kathleen Norris

#55. OUR PERSUASION:

Too many prophecies have already been literally fulfilled for any reasonable person to say that these things happened by chance. They happened according to the plan and program of Almighty God, who writes history in advance. ~ Oliver Greene

Oliver Greene

#56. A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and the transaction will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.

William Zinsser

#57. IF YOU FIND YOUR LIFE tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons," writes Bokonon, "that person may be a member of your karass." At

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#58. A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.

Uma Nnenna