Writing Quote by Heraclitus Download Open image ““The track of writing is straight and crooked.”” — Heraclitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.” — Thomas H. Green Copy Share Image
“I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.” — Virginia Frances Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't.” — Adam Santo Copy Share Image
“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.” — Sydney Jane Baily Copy Share Image
“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
We do not step in the same river twice, for the waters have moved on and we too have changed. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image