Writing Quotes

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Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme.

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

Less is more.

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.