Cannot Write Quotes

52 quotes by 42 authors

• I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it. — Irrfan Khan
• If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses. — Heinrich Heine
• Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad… — Jack Kerouac
• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute
• In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it… — Edsger Dijkstra
• I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano. — Jayne Meadows
• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country. — Saad Hariri
• Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot… — David Ogilvy
• While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. — Jonathan Sacks
• You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. — Maurice Sendak
• I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams
• When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. — Oscar Wilde
• I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only… — Shannon Hale
• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
• (on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events… — Bertrand Russell
• You cannot write unless you write much. — W. Somerset Maugham
• He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize — Oscar Wilde
• You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for… — Woodrow Wilson

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 Max Hastings
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Shannon Hale
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Woodrow Wilson
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Elif Safak
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Charles Krauthammer
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Philippe Falardeau
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Albert Einstein
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Roger Ebert
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Ernest Thompson Seton
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Henry R. Luce
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Needa Muy
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Rosamond Lehmann
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Gene Wolfe
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 1 Cannot Write Quote by Linus Torvalds