We Write Quotes

127 quotes by 111 authors

• We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection. — Sue Monk Kidd
• بالدم نكتب لفلسطين We write with the blood for Palestine — Ghassan Kanafani
• We write by the light of every story we have ever read. — Richard Peck
• We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read… — Daniel Pennac
• I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by… — Siri Hustvedt
• We write to make sense of it all. — Wallace Stegner
• When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around… — Anne Lamott
• Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing.… — Rick Bass
• Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts… — Charles Simic
• We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller. — David Grossman
• We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it… — Neil Gaiman
• We write to discover what we think. — Joan Didion
• Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids… — Maurice Sendak
• 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
• Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative… — Mark Batterson
• To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not. — Mark Nepo
• The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.… — Anne Carson
• We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn… — Saint Augustine
• Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine… — Barry Schwartz
• A friend and I started a band together. I am kind of learning how to play instruments. We write stuff over Skype or e-mail. I… — Reece Thompson

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 Medeski Martin And Wood
• 2 We Write Quotes by James Joyce
• 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
• 1 We Write Quote by Duke Ellington
• 1 We Write Quote by J. Sidlow Baxter
• 1 We Write Quote by Sue Monk Kidd
• 1 We Write Quote by Common
• 1 We Write Quote by Teri Hatcher
• 1 We Write Quote by Mark Victor Hansen
• 1 We Write Quote by Ghassan Kanafani
• 1 We Write Quote by Alex Turner
• 1 We Write Quote by Andrea Barrett
• 1 We Write Quote by Michel Foucault
• 1 We Write Quote by Daniel Pennac
• 1 We Write Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• 1 We Write Quote by Siri Hustvedt