"We cannot write well or truly but what…" — Henry David Thoreau

More Cannot Write Quotes

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• A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. — Jane Austen
• You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. — Max Hastings
• No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make… — W. Somerset Maugham
• My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the… — C.S. Lewis
• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another… — Victor Hugo
• Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write… — Mark Twain
• I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am… — Albert Einstein
• To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion. — Roger Ebert
• There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can… — Henry R. Luce
• A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one… — Rosamond Lehmann
• Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet.… — Gene Wolfe

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