Writes Quotes

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

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

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.