Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. — A J Liebling
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing… — Rupert Murdoch
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song. — Laurence Sterne
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — Oscar Wilde
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind. — Natalie Goldberg
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my… — Bill Gates
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes... — Phil Dusenberry
I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my… — J. R. Martinez
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put… — Ernest Hemingway
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I… — Lucille Clifton
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal. — Abba Eban
The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates… — Frantz Fanon
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. — Ishmael Reed
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He… — Rebecca West
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn vos Savant
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.… — Jonathan Swift
Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later. — Frank J. Prial
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their… — Ernest Hemingway
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the… — Maya Angelou
with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to… — Thomas Jefferson
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Unknown Author
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. — Hugh Mackay

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