Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any…
— Jean Kerr
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I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
— Walter Raleigh
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Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be,…
— Abraham Maslow
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When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey.
— Randy Moss
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My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me
— Drake
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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
— Carl Sandburg
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Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched…
— Robert Frost
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
— G. H. Hardy
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very…
— Ray Bradbury
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Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.
— Unknown Author
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I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore,…
— D. C. Fontana
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To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the…
— John Hersey
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Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us…
— Melissa Scott
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Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
— Elbert Hubbard
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If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.
— Natalie Goldberg
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My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
— Elmore Leonard
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