#writes

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#felt #hasn #many #selves #separate

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ↗

— Andre Gide

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

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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

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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#british #i #i am #only #spanish

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

— Breyten Breytenbach

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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#good #good mind #mediocre #mind #reasonably

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