Writing Quotes
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
Toni MorrisonToni Morrison I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.
HafezHafez I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story’s coming from me.
Dua LipaDua Lipa No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert FrostRobert Frost The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.
Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll I hope you are still writing things that no one else will ever see.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs