We Write Quotes

127 quotes by 111 authors

• We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. — Mark Twain
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
• Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away… — Johann Gottfried Herder
• We write our own destiny ...we become what we do. — Chiang Kai-shek
• We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we… — Micheal Mac Liammoir
• We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. — Henry David Thoreau
• We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about. — Richard Peck
• We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. — Cecil Day-Lewis
• I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went… — Willie Nelson
• I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens… — Duke Ellington
• The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty.… — Teri Hatcher
• I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why… — Andrea Barrett
• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F. H. Bradley
• Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?… — Jack Heffron
• We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a… — Carolyn Coman
• Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write… — Ronald Dworkin
• The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. — Anthony Shadid
• When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind — Natalie Goldberg
• We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves. — Layne Staley

Who Wrote These We Write Quotes

111 authors contributed a total of 127 We Write Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 We Write Quotes by Nishan Panwar
• 3 We Write Quotes by Anais Nin
• 3 We Write Quotes by Anne Lamott
• 2 We Write Quotes by C.S. Lewis
• 2 We Write Quotes by Ronald Dworkin
• 2 We Write Quotes by Maya Angelou
• 2 We Write Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 2 We Write Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 We Write Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 2 We Write Quotes by Richard Peck
• 2 We Write Quotes by Medeski Martin And Wood
• 2 We Write Quotes by James Joyce
• 1 We Write Quote by F. H. Bradley
• 1 We Write Quote by Wallace Stegner
• 1 We Write Quote by Ritu Ghatourey
• 1 We Write Quote by Jack Heffron
• 1 We Write Quote by David Platt
• 1 We Write Quote by Rick Bass
• 1 We Write Quote by Carolyn Coman
• 1 We Write Quote by Wilferd Peterson
• 1 We Write Quote by Charles Simic
• 1 We Write Quote by Irving Kaplansky
• 1 We Write Quote by David Grossman
• 1 We Write Quote by Anthony Shadid
• 1 We Write Quote by Meg Rosoff