#writes

Nothing in language is immutably fixed: the best writers are constantly changing it. ↗

— C. E. Montague

#rewrites #change

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#desire #i #i do #i think #idioms

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#disadvantage #eye #forms #gives #governs

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#cause #economical #everything #lazy #myself

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 #cream #figure #i #ice

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#autobiography #book #boring #details #full

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

— Alfred Kazin

#make #minds #oneself #others #paper

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material. ↗

— Ben Folds

#almost #any #back #center #go

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#comedy #funny #god #how #know