Writing

Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus quote: “The desire to write grows with writing…”

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon quote: “Reading maketh a full man; conference a…”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: “Easy reading is damn hard writing…”

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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison quote: “Among all kinds of Writing, there is…”

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Motivational & inspirational quotes

Napoleon Hill quote: “Reduce your plan to writing. The moment…”

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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg quote: “When I was writing pretty poor poetry…”

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Quotes about books & reading

Ben Okri quote: “Reading, like writing, is a creative act…”

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Ancient wisdom

Horace quote: “Good sense is both the first principal…”

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Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell quote: “A great many people now reading and…”

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Poet quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: “There is creative reading as well as…”

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Quotes about books & reading

Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: “One must be an inventor to read…”

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Poet quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: “Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every…”

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Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner quote: “You never know what you will learn…”

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Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner quote: “Writing novels preserves you in a state…”

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Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner quote: “It is my contention that Aesop was…”

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Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner quote: “In real life, it is the hare…”

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David Ives

David Ives quote: “Writing a play, you start with less…”

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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie quote: “I’ve always believed in writing without a…”

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin quote: “If you would not be forgotten as…”

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin quote: “Either write something worth reading or do…”

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Graham Greene

Graham Greene quote: “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes…”

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Friendship quotes

Moliere quote: “Writing is like prostitution. First you do…”

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Jules Renard

Jules Renard quote: “Writing is the only profession where no…”

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Poet quotes

Robert Frost quote: “Writing free verse is like playing tennis…”

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Playwright quotes

Tennessee Williams quote: “When I stop working the rest of…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Butler quote: “When a man is in doubt about…”

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Poet quotes

Walter Savage Landor quote: “The writing of the wise are the…”

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Jules Renard

Jules Renard quote: “The story I am writing exists, written…”

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Poet quotes

Robert Frost quote: “Talking is a hydrant in the yard…”

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Playwright quotes

Samuel Beckett quote: “Nothing matters but the writing. There has…”

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