Writes Quotes

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

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

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

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

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.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

No person writes to win awards.

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.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

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.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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.

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.

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.