Write Quotes

"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."
-Voltaire

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
-George Orwell

"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained."
-Nikki Giovanni

"It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
-Socrates

"In order to write about life, first you must live it!"
-Ernest Hemingway

"The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have."
-Rita Mae Brown

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."
-Jack London

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
-John F. Kennedy

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next."
-Laurence Sterne

"To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature."
-William Shakespeare

"Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one."
-Robert Byrne

"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one."
-Michel de Montaigne

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing."
-Benjamin Franklin

"I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman."
-Betty Friedan

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
-English Proverb

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."
-Benjamin Franklin

"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

"If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and will fall in love with life, I would devote all my life and all my strengths to it."
-Leo Tolstoy