Write Quotes - page 4

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. (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.

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.

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.

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Herbert Spencer

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Jack Kerouac

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

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.

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. (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.

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.

Donald Knuth

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

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.

Samuel Johnson

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

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.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

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.

Jim Henson

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. (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.

Maya Angelou

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Steven Wright

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

William Saroyan

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

William Cobbett

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