Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 4912 authors
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I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
— James M. Cain
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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
— Dodie Smith
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I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot…
— Kage Baker
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
— Jackie Collins
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There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's…
— Brad Meltzer
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write…
— Haruki Murakami
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He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
— Tom Stoppard
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get…
— Kanye West
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I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the…
— Unknown Author
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I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look…
— Massimo Vignelli
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
— Gustave Flaubert
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done…
— Matsuo Basho
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What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice…
— Annie Proulx
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Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
— Haruki Murakami
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When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that…
— Susan Sontag
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If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will…
— Robin Maxwell
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Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
— K.J. Parker
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I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian’s writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really…
— Richelle Mead
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
— Fernando Pessoa
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