Quotes On Writing - A Collection of Famous Writers

William Shakespeare

"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

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"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall." 

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"I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind." 

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"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."

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"Have more than you show, speak less than you know."

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"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

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"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never go to heaven."

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"To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature."

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"We know who we are, but do not know what we can be."  

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"Like madness is the glory of life."

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"Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

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"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of a good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."

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"There is no darkness - but ignorance."

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"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart or else my heart concealing it will break."

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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

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"What's done cannot be undone."

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"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."

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"And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name."

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