Writes Quotes

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

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.

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.