#writes

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view. ↗

— Richard Russo

#everyone #point #point of view #view #well

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

#author #book #characters #escape #itself

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#any #deadline #express #ideas #improved

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 of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. ↗

— Anita Diament

#close #compare #english #favorite #how

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

#beings #crave #feel #going #great

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

#artist #band #care #competitive #good

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#including #lie #she #word #writes

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#actually #around #evidence #looking #most