Writes Quotes

• As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Free
  • Writes
  • Oxymoron

• Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Support
  • Wonder
  • Forgotten

• He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Thoughts
  • Importance
  • Writes

• When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

  

  Aja Monet
  • Woman
  • Poem
  • Writes

• The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • True
  • Philosophy
  • Opinions

• As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.

  

  Boudleaux Bryant
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Creative

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

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Poet
  • Writes

• Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Leadership
  • Influence
  • Conclusions

• Sam writes in her funny, fascinating memoir, Not By Accident.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Funny
  • Accident
  • Writes

• And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather than take to their beds. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt always responded to pain by doing more, by doing something, by being active. And I think she just couldn't bear to look at her childhood grief. And she didn't.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Pain
  • Sick
  • Childhood Grief

• If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate your work based on how much they relate to it, so it’s like, well, who’s the narcissist?

  

  Emily Gould
  • Woman
  • Relate
  • Human Condition

• We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Fear
  • Writes

• Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Imagination
  • Wings
  • Mediocrity

• Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Writes
  • Forgets
  • Song Title

• Out West all the smells are sucked up out of the baked land by the sun. And it’s as if all the colors in the ground are gobbled up by their sunsets, and so is the blue of the sky. The sky is high and pale and impersonal and you get the feeling it doesn’t belong to you at all, but that it is the property of the chamber of commerce. In the South the sky is humid and low and rich and it’s yours to smell and feel. In the West you’re only an observer. In the West someone sees a flower growing on a mountain and he writes a whole damned pamphlet about it.

  

  Elliott Chaze
  • Sun
  • Sky
  • Property

• 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
  • Heal
  • Cares
  • Writes

• A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

  

  Richard Steele
  • Writes
  • Seldom

• A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"

  

  Milton Berle
  • Accident
  • Application
  • Writes

• The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Audience
  • Fools
  • Writes

• Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.

  

  Paul Horgan
  • Lives
  • Everybody
  • Writes

• Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.

  

  Eva Marie Saint
  • Actor
  • Forget
  • Writes

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