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Quotes About Writes

Memory dictates and history writes
~ Pierre Nora
Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.
~ John Clare
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
~ William Shakespeare
I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.
~ Sara Gruen
Language has not the power to speak what love indites The soul lies buried in the Ink that writes
~ John Clare
The room was the poem, the day I was in. Oh Christ. What writes my poem is the second ring, inner or outer. Poetry is just the performance of it. These little things, whether I write them or not. That's the score. The thing of great value is you. Where you are, glowing and fading, while you live.
~ Eileen Myles
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
~ bacon francis ii
A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.
~ Stephen King
I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
~ Maggie Smith
Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.
~ Jeff Giles
I just love the fact that Sylvester Stallone is a multi-hyphenate. He acts, he writes, he produces, he directs. I always respected that guy, especially with 'The Expendables' franchise, which is very much the type of movie that my dad and I loved when I was a kid.
~ Glen Powell
You can use volatile variables only when all the following criteria are met: Writes to the variable do not depend on its current value, or you can ensure that only a single thread ever updates the value; The variable does not participate in invariants with other state variables; and Locking is not required for any other reason while the variable is being accessed.
~ Brian Goetz
a story is a letter the author writes to himself
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Very frank about his many seductions. But also he writes a great deal on the rise of the Judenfressers—that means Jew Eaters, because the term anti-Semitism was not yet coined when he was a boy. Schnitzler was Jewish, of course.
~ Geraldine Brooks
and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.
~ Jacques Derrida
I think these movements and become them, here, In this room's stillness, none of them about, And relish them all-until I think of where Thrashed by a crook, the cursive adder writes Quick V's and Q's in the dust and rubs them out. from "Movements
~ Norman MacCaig