Writer Oscar Wilde Quotes

#1. Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

Amy Bloom

#3. Everyone can write a cliche. What's rare is to write them often and unashamedly enough that people quote it as if it's some deep shit.

Jimmy Lo

#4. FUBU is pretty well licensed out in China and Asia. In America it's a little more of a challenge, obviously, because it's a branded sport.

Daymond John

#5. They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

#6. When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

Jane Fonda

#8. You are the writer of your life story; so don't forget to write the best one.

Debasish Mridha

#9. I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

Christopher Buckley

#10. So, I want to try to spend more time with Dad."
Abe glanced at Rose."You see that?" He said. "Now that's devotion." She rolled her eyes at him.

Richelle Mead

#11. You've got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act before you can act. You have to believe you can be an astronaut before you can be an astronaut. You've got to believe.

Eddie Izzard

#12. He hadn't struck her as particularly religious unless she counted the number of times he'd called out to Jesus when he'd been deep inside her.

Amy Andrews

#13. His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Oscar Wilde

#14. I dabbled into witchcraft-I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do,

Christine O'Donnell

#15. I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

Oscar Wilde

#16. I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.

John Waters

#17. As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

Cobi Jones

#18. The stream that hustles us
Neither nourishes nor heals.

Sylvia Plath

#19. Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

Oscar Wilde

#20. I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.

Cindy McCain

#21. If you care about what others think, don't become a writer.

Oscar Wilde

#22. The object of power is power.

George Orwell