Write Quotes

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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
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. — Walter Bagehot
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
Write about society as news and treat it like sociology. — Clifton Daniel
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. — Albert Camus
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. — Francis Bacon
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Robert Byrne
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
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. — Alan Perlis
While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. — Boyle Roche
I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad. — Hart Crane
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own… — Arthur Hertzberg
I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. — John Hope
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. — D. H. Lawrence
Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence. — Brian Harris
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me… — Elizabeth George
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or… — Paul Taylor
The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit,… — Richard G. Scott
The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is… — Julien Green
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. — Julien Green
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor… — James Harrington
Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for… — John Hughes
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how… — Robert B. Parker
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even… — Kenneth Koch
When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads. — John Turturro

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