Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages. . . . The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.
No one writes about the emotional things you go through.
Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.
A writer writes what other people only think.
When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.
But our wounds are part of who we are. . . and there is nothing left to chance. . . . And pain's the pen that writes the songs. . . . That call us forth to dance
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.