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Each one writes history according to his convenience. — Jose Rizal

God, the boring relative everyone ignores - no one calls, no one writes - until they need a serious favor. — Marisha Pessl

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore. — Robert McKee

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us — John Geddes

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it. — Irwin Shaw

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

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur. — Harlan Ellison

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. — George Sand

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. — George Bernard Shaw

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." OBAMA — Will Schwalbe

Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir! — Amity Gaige

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might. — Jonah Winter

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him. — Mo Yan

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

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z

Some drink. Some do drugs. I writes — Pamela Morris

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me. — Stephan Jenkins

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, I read, therefore it writes. — Italo Calvino

I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters. — John Allison

Somewhere Chesterton writes
I think it is Chesterton
that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to. — Alec Wilkinson

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully. — Maggie Smith

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. — Orson Welles

When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive? — Sage Francis

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen. — Robert Newton Peck

One writes fables in periods of oppression. — Italo Calvino

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever. — Chris Martin

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are. — Philip Pullman

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships. — Kevin Spacey

No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. — Stella Atrium

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it. — Robert Pollard

Sebastian notices the girl too, so he opens up his binder to a fresh sheet of paper, then takes out a pen and writes, I still really miss you. — Lauren Barnholdt

One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience, — James A. Baldwin

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. — Pablo Neruda

If a man doesn't give his beloved the letter he writes, his love is true. — Jandy Nelson

To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are. — Rachel Held Evans

And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes. — Jacques Derrida

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning. — Katy Perry

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. — F Scott Fitzgerald

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant. — John Osborne

And James Patterson (or whoever writes for James Patterson) - — Gabrielle Zevin

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work. — Kenneth W. Harl

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others. — Richard Eberhart

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. — Harold Bloom

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

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. — Andrej Pejic

I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs. — Tom DeLonge

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. — Regina Brett

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn Vos Savant

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty. — John Vianney

One writes in order to feel ... — Muriel Rukeyser

As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[ — Michael S. Horton

A story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

To think," Borges writes, "is to forget. — Joshua Foer

A writer writes what other people only think. — Sol Stein

Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow. — Will Thomas

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own
that is, for his age
so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them. — Molly Evangeline

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

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me. — Lana Del Rey

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver

Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart. — Debasish Mridha

Whether ideas like this are inspiration or insomnia, I don't know," he writes in his journal. "I do things by sixth sense." Patton — Bill O'Reilly

Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form. — W. H. Auden

So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word. — Robert Krulwich

The more a man writes, the more he can write. — William Hazlitt

When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem. — Robin Roberts

A book writes itself. You are just the hand that puts everything on paper. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Few in the million writes, rest worth their writings. — Sumit

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes. — Patrick Modiano

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

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. — Jean De La Bruyere

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Every artist writes his own autobiography. — Havelock Ellis

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head. — Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about. — Janice Dickinson

Dickens writes that one of his characters, listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business. — Charles Dickens

Whatever one writes, comes to pass. — Oscar Wilde

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees. — Ged Thompson

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes. — Harlan Coben

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. — Condola Rashad

Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, He writes murder mysteries. — Josh Lanyon

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars. — James Dean Bradfield

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. — Arthur Koestler

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face. — Michel Foucault

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like. — H.L. Mencken

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man. — Maggie Young

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels. — Jan Smuts

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel. — Edie Brickell

A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them). — Albert Camus

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. — John Taylor

A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee. — Arianna Huffington