Famous quotes containing the word write:
“To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harms way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.”
—Ellen Glasgow (18731945)
“When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, Ill write onebut Im grown up now, she added in a sorrowful tone: At least theres no room to grow up any more here.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)