Write Quotes

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.