Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
— Will Durant
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I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
— Pauline Kael
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Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind…
— Joan Didion
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It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not…
— Walter Benjamin
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What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like…
— Gilles Deleuze
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of…
— Marquis de Sade
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Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you…
— George H. W. Bush
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
— Nicholas Sparks
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
— Maeve Binchy
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The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.
— E. L. James
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You must write for the waste basket.
— Johnny Mercer
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I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.
— Elizabeth Bishop
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What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing…
— James Dickey
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There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and…
— Charles Bukowski
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I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke
— Thom Yorke
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O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism…
— Virginia Woolf
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If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no…
— Eugene Ionesco
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The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you…
— David Mamet
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IFÂ YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITEÂ AÂ SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILLÂ BEÂ WRITING GREAT DRAMA.
— David Mamet
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