Quotes of Write - somelinesforyou

“ I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Mitch Hedberg

“ If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be. ”

- Charlie Daniels

“ Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ I'd never written a sitcom before. ”

- Dylan Moran

“ If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. ”

- William Golding

“ Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it — ink it! ”

- Unknown

“ The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ”

- Horace

“ Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so. ”

- Northrop Frye

“ Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it — ink it! ”

- Unknown

“ I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped. ”

- Marty Robbins

“ I have an existential map; it has "you are here" written all over it. ”

- Steven Wright

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

- Samuel Rogers

“ I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. ”

- Doris Lessing

“ In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Don't get it right, just get it written. ”

- James Thurber

“ I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. ”

- Abbott Joseph Liebling

“ 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. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial. ”

- John Grisham

“ No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliche, not from real life. ”

- Ezra

“ I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. ”

- Beryl Pfizer

“ Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. ”

- The Holy Bible
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