Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in… — Alistair Cooke
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey
We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my… — John Denver
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's… — William S. Burroughs
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to… — Julia Gillard
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for… — Moliere
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. — Mark Twain
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. — Ulysses S. Grant
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell
Did you write the words, or the lyrics? — Bruce Forsyth
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. — Charles Caleb Colton
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the… — Hugo Black
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships. — Gore Vidal
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred. — Jules Renard
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have… — Jane Green
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in… — John Milton
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write. — Finley Peter Dunne
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. — Charles Caleb Colton
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and… — Jonah Lehrer
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie,… — Grace Paley
The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I do… — Chris Rock
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes… — Arthur Miller

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