Write

Famous quotes containing the word write:

“To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, “Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday”?”
—Michéal MacLiammóir (1899–1978)

“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)