Cannot Write Quotes

52 quotes by 42 authors

• A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. — Jane Austen
• You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. — Max Hastings
• No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,… — W. Somerset Maugham
• We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. — Henry David Thoreau
• My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not… — C.S. Lewis
• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless… — Victor Hugo
• Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have… — Mark Twain
• I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the… — Albert Einstein
• To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion. — Roger Ebert
• There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. — Henry R. Luce
• A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up… — Rosamond Lehmann
• Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two… — Gene Wolfe
• I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Portability is for people who cannot write new programs — Linus Torvalds
• Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson
• What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares Farm; of the… — James Harbord
• Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which… — Pablo Casals
• I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say. — Celia Green
• You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot… — Samuel Johnson

Who Wrote These Cannot Write Quotes

42 authors contributed a total of 52 Cannot Write Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 5 Cannot Write Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 2 Cannot Write Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
• 2 Cannot Write Quotes by Bertrand Russell
• 2 Cannot Write Quotes by Victor Hugo
• 2 Cannot Write Quotes by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Pablo Casals
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Celia Green
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Irrfan Khan
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Heinrich Heine
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Jack Kerouac
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Nathalie Sarraute
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Edsger Dijkstra
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Jayne Meadows
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Saad Hariri
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by David Ogilvy
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Jonathan Sacks
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Maurice Sendak
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Tennessee Williams
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Jane Austen
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Max Hastings
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Shannon Hale
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Woodrow Wilson