We Write Quotes
127 quotes by 111 authors
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We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.
— Sheila Bender
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As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter…
— J. Sidlow Baxter
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When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals,…
— Mark Victor Hansen
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see…
— Michel Foucault
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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all,…
— James Joyce
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What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as…
— C.S. Lewis
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No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites…
— David Platt
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The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
— Mark Twain
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In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God's inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in…
— Wilferd Peterson
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We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close…
— Irving Kaplansky
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The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
— Meg Rosoff
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language.…
— Toni Morrison
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I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
— Dani Shapiro
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We often read with as much talent as we write.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing…
— Saul Bellow
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Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan…
— Sasha Pieterse
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