Writes Quotes

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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 a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

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.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

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.

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.

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

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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 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.

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.

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.