Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. — Len Deighton
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in… — Peter Cochrane
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the… — William Buckland
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are… — William Lawrence Bragg
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far… — Augustus De Morgan
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. — Peter Handke
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King
I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's it!' I think… — Richard Ben Cramer
Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against… — Leigh Brackett
Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will… — Unknown Author
I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art. — Unknown Author
I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. — Patrick Dennis
Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there,… — James Alexander Thom
The men who make history have not time to write it. — Klemens von Metternich
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. — Svetlana Alliluyeva
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. — Margaret Forster
The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity. — John E. Jones III
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that… — Frank J. Tipler
Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of… — William Henry Bragg
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I… — Meg Tilly
Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it. — Neale Donald Walsch
Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple… — Unknown Author

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