201 Writes Quotes for You to Enjoy

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. Martin Luther

God Alone Bible Clouds Stars Trees Writes Also Gospel Flowers

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. James M. Barrie

Life Man Every Write Writes Volume He Hour Vowed Make Another His Diary Story Which Means Compares Every Man Humblest

The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character. Hunter S. Thompson

Work Character Director Own Action Must Somehow Scene Writer Writes Main Main Character Participant Like Protagonist Himself Does Least Camera His Scripts Who Film

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

Beautiful Madness Most Beautiful Those Writes Most Beautiful Things Reason Things

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten. Ernest Hemingway

Man Sometimes Will Degree Immediately Possesses Writes He Clear Quite May Forgotten Endure Fortunate Eventually Things Alchemy

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see. Floyd Skloot

Travel Long Hong Kong Books See About Through Writes Never He Most Singapore Kong Nonfiction Mixed His Exotic Africa Places Paul Us Productive Novels Lives Career Honduras Set

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. George A. Romero

Me Fly Pay Statistic Out Writes Bucks Fail Industry Another Off Succeed Hollywood Fart Film Film Industry Million Million Bucks

A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail. Han Fei

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. John Updike

Worlds Others Consistently Besides Some Seem Collins Poems More Writes Gently Were Than Lovely Billy Describe Serious Startling

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Junot Diaz

Hope You Writing Amazing Nothing Everything Sign Easily Promise See No Hope Writer Writes Talent She Well Because Does Any Golden Anyway View Even Shows Keep

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war. Kevin Powers

War Will Honestly About Someone Writes Opinion Anti-War Personal Inherently

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. Orson Welles

Director Kind Writes Who

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car. Stanley Kubrick

Problem Car Somebody Everyone Wear Somehow Something Writes Football Instance Myths Part Over Until Read Repeated Years Off Wall Accumulate Gets Cannot Helmet Dispel Believes

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. V. S. Naipaul

Comedy Writes Hysteria Always Moment Deepest

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy. Wynton Marsalis

Love Attitude Me Musical Philosophy Some About Give Give Me Oblique Writes Put Abstract Abstraction Like Look Got References Trumpet Person Just Mayonnaise Really Who Things Sauce Ketchup