Writes Quotes

• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Writes

• We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

  

  John Ruskin
  • Remember
  • History
  • Worship

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fiction
  • Duty
  • Painful

• I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Humanity

• I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Novels
  • Scholar
  • Left Hand

• If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Idea
  • Writes

• I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

  

  Steven Zaillian
  • People
  • Long
  • Writes

• No one who writes a good book is really dead.

  

  Walter Moers
  • Really
  • Dead
  • Writes

• 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.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Play
  • Teacher
  • Student

• I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Song
  • Person
  • Loved

• A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Lawyer
  • Writes
  • Brief

• Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Learned
  • Writes
  • Aphorisms

• Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Star
  • Songs
  • Sings

• One writes not by will but by surrender.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Surrender
  • Writes

• I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Audiences
  • Writes

• I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Kind

• In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Painting
  • Need
  • Professions

• In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.

  

  Jeanine Basinger
  • Movies
  • Humor
  • Writes

• When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Transformed
  • Sonic Youth

• When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

  

  Len Wein
  • Done
  • Job
  • Rest

• I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It’s astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Admire
  • Screenplay
  • Woody Allen

• Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Work
  • She
  • Attention

• He is smitten on the brain, -he reads and writes verses! I caught him in the act! Fools might say he was inspired; but I know it is the first and worst symptom of lunacy. All other maniacs have lucid intervals; some are curable; but the madness of poets, dogs, and musicians, is past hope. Earth possesses no remedy, science no cure.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Hope
  • Inspired
  • Musicians

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