Writing Quote by Omar Khayyam

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,…

— Douglas E. Richards

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,…

— Omar Khayyám

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,…

— Anonymous

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit…

— Jojo Moyes

“writing is perilous, as you can’t always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

— Jojo Moyes

“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

— Omar Khayyam

“Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and who knows…

— Terry Pratchett

“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and…

— John Updike

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

— Christopher Hitchens

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

“Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever…”

— Lisa Jones