Never Write Quotes
87 quotes by 77 authors
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You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
— William Kraft
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Never write more than two pages on any subject.
— David Ogilvy
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Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
— Derek Raymond
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You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write…
— Tony Gilroy
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
— Douglas Coupland
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Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest…
— Steven Heighton
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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier…
— William Faulkner
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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
— Ernest Hemingway
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Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.
— Richard Hugo
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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to…
— David Ogilvy
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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the…
— Mark Twain
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Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to…
— Gregory Maguire
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book…
— Marguerite Young
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Never write a letter and never destroy one.
— Cardinal Richelieu
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You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.
— Patricia Duncker
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You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories,…
— Anne Lamott
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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and…
— Mark Twain
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Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the…
— R L Stine
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I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.
— Holland Taylor
Who Wrote These Never Write Quotes
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