Quotes About Writes

#1. The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.

Ayn Rand

#2. 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 visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

Steve Carell

#3. Dissection," writes historian Ruth Richardson in Death, Dissection, and the Destitute, "requires in its practitioners the effective suspension or suppression of many normal physical and emotional responses to the wilful mutilation of the body of another human being.

Anonymous

#4. I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor, are expected to really make it up in your imagination. That's not really an ideal way of working.

Hugh Dancy

#5. No one who writes a good book is really dead.

Walter Moers

#6. When Emily Dickinson writes, "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul," she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.

Terry Tempest Williams

#7. Can I trust this boy who writes in the earth?

Ally Condie

#8. The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, There is no folk wisdom.

Jennifer Senior

#9. Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Harold Holzer

#10. The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Max Nordau

#11. Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks ... Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.

Tim Dorsey

#13. Are you telling me that sweet little woman who was in my office this afternoon writes porn?" Sean winced. "Dear god, don't call it porn." Grace

Lexi Blake

#14. A story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. 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

#16. When a writer writes, it's as if she holds the sides of her chest apart, exposes her beating heart. And even though everything wants to heal, to close over and protect the heart, the writer must keep it bare, exposed.

Helen Humphreys

#17. I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

Robert Breault

#18. No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#19. A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

J.B. Priestley

#20. I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Nick Cave

#21. And Richard Phillips writes, Theology bores today's Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself.

Tim Challies

#22. Some drink. Some do drugs. I writes

Pamela Morris

#23. The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

Agatha Christie

#24. If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

George A. Romero

#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. Suppose she denied him then but favored him some other time? Women are weak and easily conquered by flattery. Especially when men write verses to them, and there are some who sat that Wyatt writes better verses than me, though I am the King.

Hilary Mantel

#27. But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was never moved by what I was doing (in an interview she said, "He writes his own material, I'm always telling him he needs a new writer") ...

Steve Martin

#28. Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

Charlie Chaplin

#29. History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#30. In her memoirs she writes that she left the hospital job because it eventually made her numb to suffering, and it left her no time to write. She neglected

David Brooks

#31. It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures.

Frederick Lenz

#32. For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Manuel Puig

#33. Theology isn't what drove them to their ... theology. author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments.

Andy Stanley

#34. I understand now that a Trojan of literary achievement writes out of passion, out of necessity.

Merce Cardus

#35. If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

Thomas Merton

#36. You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that ... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

John Bolton

#37. It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Flannery O'Connor

#38. I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

Quentin Tarantino

#39. Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.

Rae Armantrout

#40. A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Ambrose Bierce

#41. Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.

Anais Nin

#42. When one writes "the last apple on the tree," or "the one small peach as pink as dawn," one is beginning to deal with particulars - to develop texture ...
Such texture is vital to all poetry. It is what makes the poem an experience, something much more than mere statement.

Mary Oliver

#43. Yes," said Hardacre, "but it's not real. We're not real. And when the story is all told, when He writes 'The End' at the bottom of the last page, then all this will wrap up. No more Hell, no more Heaven, no more angels, devils, saints or sinners. The story's done. It will be as if we never were

Matthew Hughes

#44. A word only writes
Its night and rides
Its dream.

Dejan Stojanovic

#45. Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is "the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires."14

Daniel Goleman

#46. When an atheist enjoys the cool breeze of a sunny autumn day as he writes his treatise saying God doesn't exist, the ultimate source of his pleasure remains God. God is the author of the universe itself - including the powers of rational thought the atheist misuses to argue against God. David

Randy Alcorn

#47. I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

Jhonen Vasquez

#48. Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.

Ged Thompson

#49. I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

Charles Lamb

#50. Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!

Saru Singhal

#51. A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

Roger Bacon

#52. Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.

Samuel Johnson

#53. 'The Master and Margarita' is deeply to do with the unconscious. It is a story about a man who writes a story in a time when he's not supposed to write that story: the story of Pontius Pilate.

Simon McBurney

#54. Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#55. Once you get the beginning right, the ending almost writes itself.

Orson Scott Card

#56. God is everything that is good, she writes. All life's pleasures and comforts are sacramental; they are God's hands touching us.

Julian Of Norwich

#57. Thought: everyone had their own thought, but those who writes had their own view and people make several views on that one view. Its not fair, he who thinks only can describe what the reality is not by others.

Nutan Bajracharya

#58. Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of his spacesuit and a bottle of whiskey in the other. (Linenger was the Frank Burns of space exploration:

Mary Roach

#59. No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.

Patch Adams

#60. He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

Jean De La Bruyere

#61. In India: A Wounded Civilization, Naipaul writes that 'the Indian way of experiencing' means that 'the outer world matters only in so far as it affects the inner'.

Ian Jack

#62. I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

Stephen King

#63. My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

Sadie Jones

#64. I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.

Michael J. Fox

#65. Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer," Draeger writes. "The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in

Ken Kesey

#66. So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

Annie Dillard

#67. The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

Nancy Kress

#68. As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.

Elena Ferrante

#69. Nachmanovitch writes, "It's great to sit on the shoulders of giants, but don't let the giants sit on your shoulders. There's no room for their legs to dangle!

Todd Henry

#70. I love you too, I say. No wonder the whole world writes songs about those words.

Cath Crowley

#71. When writing your life story, love writes a masterpiece.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#72. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Omar Khayyam

#73. The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS" ...

Israelmore Ayivor

#74. The mountains are intimations of transcendence, which he is now free to pursue, and the walking writes messages in every cell of his body, telling him that he is not locked inside a cement box, nor in a water drum, but is moving forward.

Michael D. O'Brien

#75. To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

William Hazlitt

#76. The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Seth Rogen

#78. One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Stephen Dobyns

#79. From Laurie Colwin: Lovely writing! About grief she writes: I realized that grief is metabolic: it crawls through you like a disease and takes your energy away. Then it gathers and hits like a sudden migraine, like being hit by a car, like having a large, flat rock hurled at your chest.

Laurie Colwin

#80. You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads - in particular, what he likes and what he disdains - as from what he writes himself.

Rodney Ulyate

#81. 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

#82. Every word an author writes causes ripples, like tossing a stone into a pond. And you don't know where they'll go, or who they'll touch, or when they might come back to you. I think everything you do is kind of like that, too.

Ellen Hopkins

#83. The nobleman thinks clearly, writes clearly, and controls his emotions, though not his feelings; the bookkeeper controls neither emotions nor feelings, and what he thinks depends on what he feels.

Fernando Pessoa

#84. A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Mary Astor

#85. The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.

Hans Arp

#86. 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

#87. Ephesians 5:33, Paul writes, "Each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband" (NIV).

Emerson Eggerichs

#88. Marriage was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis of something as irrational as love," writes Coontz.

Aziz Ansari

#89. All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

Max Lucado

#90. I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.

Schoolboy Q

#91. Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

Jay-Z

#92. I'm a seeker who writes about what I find. And maybe, on just the right day, I can help you flatten your learning curve. If I've got anything to say, it's this: you are the authority on you.

Danielle LaPorte

#93. What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#94. When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

Len Wein

#95. 1978 when she decided to contact Clinton. That's when events took a turn for the worse. As Christopher Andersen writes in American Evita: Juanita checked into Little Rock's Camelot

Victor Thorn

#96. It seems counterintuitive, but the more altruistic your attitude, the more benefits you will gain from the relationship," writes LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. "If you set out to help others," he explains, "you will rapidly reinforce your own reputation and expand your universe of possibilities.

Adam M. Grant

#97. A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.

Stephen King

#98. A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

George Orwell

#99. Nancy writes romantic cookbooks!

Robyn Peterman

#100. I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.

Anthony Burgess