We Write Quotes
127 quotes by 111 authors
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Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper…
— Thomas Bernhard
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No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
— Howard Gardner
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So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation,…
— Harry Harlow
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The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of…
— Marita Golden
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If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on…
— Carole Maso
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We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
— Francine du Plessix Gray
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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin,…
— Steven Saylor
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We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's…
— Chad Smith
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within…
— Maya Angelou
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This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we…
— Paula Vogel
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The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that we…
— Henry Cloud
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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and…
— Kristin Armstrong
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We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.
— Félix J. Palma
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in…
— Thomas More
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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the…
— Edmond Jabes
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There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can't. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, our touch, in what we write and say, in the way we walk and the…
— Mother Teresa
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
— Allen Ginsberg
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves,…
— Eudora Welty
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