Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't…
— Yash Chopra
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Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is…
— Dave Barry
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It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on…
— Russell Baker
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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
— Alice Hoffman
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As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.…
— Mark Twain
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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to…
— Nathaniel Borenstein
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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to…
— Ernest Hemingway
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I…
— Lord Byron
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless…
— Victor Hugo
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A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
— Jackie Collins
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Planning to write is not writing.
— E L Doctorow
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Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed…
— Donald Murray
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I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of…
— Tove Jansson
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I…
— Fiona Apple
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
— Alan Jay Lerner
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