No one writes about the emotional things you go through.
Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.
It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.
When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.
[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.
Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen in one way or the other. Just as in painting, there's much more interest in the American scene painters and the early American. . . like the Ashcan school of painters. Who would have thought, 50 years ago, that Norman Rockwell would again be considered a serious painter? And yet, there are a lot of people who are saying Rockwell was a very accomplished technician. These things are constantly moving.
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger. , Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine. ]
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.
The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience.
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. . . . 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.
