Writes Quotes
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
Irwin Shaw
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
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
I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
Jackie Collins
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
Max Nordau
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.
Edward Norton
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Leon Edel
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
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
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
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Nadine Gordimer
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 on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
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
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
Tiger Woods
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
Vivienne Westwood
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
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Mickey Spillane