#writes

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. ↗

— Dario Argento

#every #extent #himself #some #writer

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#cow #like #milk #publisher #who

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

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

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

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script. ↗

— Edward Norton

#blank page #call #down #i #looks

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#decent #formula #get #i #itself