Writes Quotes

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

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.

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.

Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

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

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

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

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

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

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.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

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.

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.

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.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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

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

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.