Quotes of Compose - somelinesforyou

“ You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ”

- John Fowles

“ I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. ”

- Mitch Hedberg

“ 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. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. ”

- Ludwig van Beethoven

“ Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”

- Unknown

“ Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. ”

- Epictetus

“ How can you write if you can't cry? ”

- Ring Lardner

“ She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon; And what men say of her they mean No more than on the thing they lean. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ I lived to write, and wrote to live. ”

- Samuel Rogers

“ If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. ”

- James Wolcott

“ If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ Learn to write well, or not to write at all. ”

- John Dryden

“ He that writes to himself, writes to an eternal public. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ I can't write five words but that I change seven. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am. ”

- Jane Austen

“ All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ If you wish to be a writer; write! ”

- Epictetus

“ Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. ”

- James J. Corbett

“ We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. ”

- Cecil Day Lewis

“ Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. - Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. ”

- Charles Eames

“ Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence. ”

- Brian Harris

“ I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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