Write Quotes - page 4

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. (William Hazlitt)
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. View quote
William Hazlitt
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. View quote
Graham Greene
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. View quote
Graham Greene
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. View quote
Edward Gibbon
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! (William Makepeace Thackeray)
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. View quote
Gore Vidal
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. View quote
Donald Knuth
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. View quote
Norman Mailer
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. View quote
Anne Rice
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. View quote
Rita Levi-Montalcini
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. View quote
Gertrude Stein
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. (Gertrude Stein)
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. View quote
Jim Henson
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. View quote
Emil Cioran
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise. View quote
Maya Angelou
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. View quote
Steven Wright
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