Write Quotes - page 2

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. View quote
Ken Thompson
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. View quote
Frank Zappa
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. View quote
Alberto Moravia
To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. (Henry Miller)
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. View quote
Alice Walker
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it. View quote
Kiran Desai
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. View quote
Kiran Desai
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. View quote
Cyril Connolly
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. (Oscar Wilde)
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. View quote
Thomas Gray
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. View quote
Walter Bagehot