Writes Quotes

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
Chris Messina

Respect, Alone, Mind

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.
Art Garfunkel

Great, Human, Real

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.
Nadine Gordimer

History, Creative, Read

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.
Josh Bowman

Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.
Colbie Caillat

Love, Music, Good

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
Stewart O'Nan

Time, Good, Great

Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.
Charlie Day

Character, Happen, Beginning

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
Nell Freudenberger

Long, Short, She

There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.
Lucy Alibar

Working, Same, She

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
Victor Davis Hanson

History, Honest, Sure

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.
Julien Green

Life, Book, Understand

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.
Miguel Ferrer

Character, Liked, Figure

People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.
Charlie Norwood

Power, Person, Before

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.
Beatrice Webb

Identity, Mysterious, Discover

David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!
Didi Conn

Music, Husband, Blessed

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.
George R. R. Martin

Work, Different, Try

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
Todor Zhivkov

Good, Write, Journalist

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.
Shawn Colvin

Music, Successful, Someone

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

Mind, Feeling, Off

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
Victor Ponta

Negative, Press

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Leon Edel

Life, Through, House

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

Life, Poetry, Lips

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
Alfred Kazin

Time, Home, Others

It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
Joy Williams

Become, Whole, Days

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.
Alvah Bessie

Home, Here, Her

What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.
Lurlene McDaniel

Life, Change, Sad

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.
Harold Ross

Words, Short, Said

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