You Wrote Quotes

69 quotes by 66 authors

The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was… — Abraham Lincoln
When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express… — Michael Josephson
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight.… — John Green
You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you did; for somehow… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now knowâ€¦I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to… — Shane Black
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. — Vaclav Havel
She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I… — Charles Portis
We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with… — Cassandra Clare
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from… — Bernard Cornwell
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. — Lorin Stein
One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore. — Keith Gessen
I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material.… — Jerry Pournelle
If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to… — Chrisette Michele
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process. — Cynthia Weil
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder… — Jean Houston
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even… — Scott Berkun
And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. — Amy Winehouse
If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat. — Ronald Isley
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote… — Margaret Atwood

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