Writes Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

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