Writes Quotes

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.

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

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'