#writes

Every artist writes his own autobiography. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#artist #autobiography #every #his #own

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#dialogue #i #most #most amazing #quentin

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#feels #oneself #shadow #tolstoy #whether

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#forget #reader #reads #reason #remember

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#conviction #full #his #i #kind

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#down #enough #guesses #him #i

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes. ↗

— John Bolton

#anybody #appears #appreciate #i #know

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#because #clearly #curious #defined #i