Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
— Franklin Pierce Adams
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I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
— John Adams
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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think…
— Michael LeBoeuf
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged…
— Peter Arnett
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
— Jean Paul
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
— Jules Renard
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not…
— Walter Benjamin
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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I…
— Comte de Lautreamont
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
— Walter Bagehot
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The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion…
— Robert Anderson
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Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.
— Clifton Daniel
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
— Albert Camus
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
— Francis Bacon
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No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
— Robert Byrne
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In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God…
— Fulton Oursler
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It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
— Alan Perlis
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While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
— Boyle Roche
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