Write Quotes - page 5

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. (Dean Acheson)
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. View quote
Willa Cather
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. View quote
Philip Larkin
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. View quote
Edward Steichen
You cannot write for children... They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. View quote
Maurice Sendak
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. View quote
Thomas Moore
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life. View quote
Neil Simon
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. (Anthony Trollope)
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. View quote
Henry Rollins
I love to write. It's my first love. View quote
Geddy Lee
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? View quote
Abraham Pais
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. View quote
John Cheever