Writes

Famous quotes containing the word writes:

“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are “not for an age, but for all time” has his reward in being unreadable in all 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.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)