Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5088 authors
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Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief…
— John Berendt
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We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me…
— Harper Lee
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I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for…
— Pam Houston
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I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on…
— James Boswell
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The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs…
— Terry Pratchett
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The Writer's Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3.…
— Gail Carson Levine
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All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible…
— David Baldacci
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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
— Ezra Pound
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They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
— A A Milne
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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.†Distrust a course of reading! People who really…
— Andrew Lang
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It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to…
— Betty Smith
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If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.
— Ayn Rand
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If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
— Jose Saramago
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First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't…
— Natalie Goldberg
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I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
— Clarice Lispector
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If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write…
— Garth Stein
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I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides, exhaust, flowers that…
— Francesca Lia Block
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I believe in hope, in what is something called â€radical hope.†I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And…
— John Green
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I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
— Zbigniew Herbert
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I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.
— Julie Anne Peters
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