Top 100 Who Writes Quotes
#1. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#2. I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
Nick Cave
#3. 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
#4. Can I trust this boy who writes in the earth?
Ally Condie
#5. No one who writes a good book is really dead.
Walter Moers
#6. I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Quentin Tarantino
#7. 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
#8. For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig
#10. As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.
Colleen Hoover
#11. Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#12. He who writes our every story needs no annotation from me.
Eli Brown
#13. I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.
Mother Teresa
#14. Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.
Jenny Mollen
#15. A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
Baron De Montesquieu
#16. The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
Edward Abbey
#17. For someone who writes as slowly as I do, each installment is a full day's work. Newspaper novels are painful ... Whether I like what I'm writing or not, whether I'm feeling inspired or not, I have to write an installment every day.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#18. 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
#19. He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. 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 it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?
Margaret Atwood
#21. People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays ... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].
Charles Darwin
#22. Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
Arthur Golden
#23. I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
Bob Shacochis
#24. 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
#25. Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#26. 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
#27. I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.
Dean Wesley Smith
#28. How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.
Ernest Hemingway,
#29. Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.
Judith Krug
#30. The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
Elizabeth Kenny
#31. The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.
Kitty Kelley
#33. A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
Harlan Ellison
#34. The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
George Sand
#35. Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.
Trey Anastasio
#36. Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#37. The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.
John Dryden
#40. It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers. A woman who writes feels too much ...
Augusten Burroughs
#41. I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.
Steven Zaillian
#42. I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.
Katy Perry
#43. He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#44. I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays
Umberto Eco
#45. Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It's amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.
Pierce Brown
#46. A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
John Taylor
#47. All this is like a dream which the word bears within itself and which, passing through him who writes, is freed and frees him.
Italo Calvino
#48. 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
#49. It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
Hannah Simone
#50. I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.
Jamie Cullum
#51. For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
Katey Sagal
#52. The 'I' [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this 'I' uses a language that is alien to her; this 'I' [Je] experiences what is alien to her since this 'I' [Je] cannot be un ecrivain. J/e poses the ideological and historical question of feminine subjects.
Monique Wittig
#53. A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong
Jimmy Cannon
#54. Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.
Claude C. Hopkins
#56. He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
Samuel Johnson
#58. Maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway
excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.
Kathleen Winsor
#59. But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
Ben Folds
#60. 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
#61. You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.
Shonda Rhimes
#62. There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
#64. For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.
Gerry Beckley
#66. It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
Susan Choi
#67. A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
Ambrose Bierce
#68. A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.
H.L. Mencken
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
Jay-Z
#72. All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.
Max Lucado
#73. I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.
Seth Rogen
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. '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
#79. A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
Roger Bacon
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.
Jess Walter
#83. I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
Chris Martin
#84. Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo
subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and
speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield.
Sheikh Abdullah
#85. There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
Candace Camp
#86. Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
Pamela Stephenson
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.
Bernie Siegel
#91. Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
Peter Greenaway
#92. I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the touring and the albums and all that, but it's pretty amazing to go into a library and see your book there.
Jim Gaffigan
#93. Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.
Will Thomas
#94. He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.
Kenneth W. Harl
#95. Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.
Loren Eiseley
#96. Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.
Ruth Ozeki
#98. You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
Ellen Goodman
#99. I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
Barbara Kingsolver
#100. He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
Martial
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