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James Russell Lowell

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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pi...
KATHERINE PATERSON If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her...
JEFF BUCKLEY I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can wr...
A. J. LIEBLING You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing o...
LAMONT DOZIER ...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for...
KATHERINE PATERSON All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it.
STEPHNIE WEIR I would write him just to ask him something, and he always answered.
HERB HART Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable m...
JERRY GARCIA I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.
GEEZER BUTLER I just wanted to write books I wanted to write, ... There's no writer who has not had enough ego to ...
ROBERT JORDAN A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
JANE AUSTEN All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de...
JO NESBO I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to ...
STEPHEN KING You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
RAY BRADBURY Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, Does he write? he fain would paint a picture
ROBERT BROWNING I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rh...
JIAH KHAN When she would write a song, she would call me and say, 'Do you want to hear something? What do you ...
CAROL ADAMS Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of int...
MAURICE SENDAK You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of in...
MAURICE SENDAK I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothi...
ENRIQUE TESSIERI I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
BROOKE BURKE I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.
CAROLE KING The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b...
KELSEA BALLERINI If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of he...
JIM BUTCHER Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a ...
PETER COCHRANE One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a ...
SIRI HUSTVEDT All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can r...
HENRY R. LUCE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can...
HENRY R. LUCE 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
W...
BRIAN CLARK Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
AMY CLAMPITT The crafty nature tricks you and you act under her spell, when you take more care of your children t...
DR HITESH C SHETH Grandpa worked as placement agent with the CAS in New York. He would write to a city or county and s...
IRENE MCCULLY CHAPMAN I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can w...
MATTHEW QUICK Therefore whoever shall do of good deeds and he is a believer, there shall be no denying of his exer...
QURAN [When asked if he had ever learned anything about his work from film criticism]
No. To s...
STANLEY KUBRICK Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her...
JEAN ELSON Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I never saw him blow a sketch. But he was quite self-contained. It was hard to write collaboratively...
ERIC MORECAMBE With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
PABLO NERUDA I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is wr...
ANITA PALLENBERG While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our com...
JONATHAN SACKS It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understa...
FULTON J. SHEEN I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have...
PATTI SMITH Much of his poetry would come from something happening inside of him. It was always something that h...
CELIA JACOBOWITZ If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth readi...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more tha...
PETER STRAUB A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful w...
BRIAN LUMLEY Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
JACKIE COLLINS I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, wo...
CHRISTINA ROMER I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
ALEXIS BLEDEL Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write
ROBERT PENN WARREN Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.<...
RICHARD MATHESON Those who can, drive; those who can't, write.
AMEN ZWA, ESQ. Only write what inspires you to write. If nothing inspires you write, anyhow. Something might come u...
A.J. CHILSON I'm definitely not pushing to find who can I write with or produce with, but of course I'm o...
BETTY WHO If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what t...
ISAIAH MUSTAFA To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifyin...
BARRY MANILOW Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.
LINDA COLLISON When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head co...
ALYSHA SPEER All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
BRUCE VILANCH Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those wi...
SUN RA Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.
PAUL SAMUELSON You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
SOURCE UNKNOWN You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my wri...
ERIN MORGENSTERN I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or st...
TOM PERROTTA We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
JOHN FOWLES We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
JOHN FOWLES I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN There's no way we can hand-write all of the checks we have to write to vendors without the computers...
BRAD BECKER I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was...
SANDRA CISNEROS Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write...
A. E. HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write
ALFRED HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Can, too. All right, people would be surprised to know I sing, rap ? and like English class. I like ...
DEJUAN BLAIR One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. I...
LUCY LARCOM If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and...
JESSE STUART We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER F. DRUCKER It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you ha...
JOHN IRVING We are not going to write to anyone seeking explanation. What can we do if he doesn't play.
NIRANJAN SHAH Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous W...
JOHN MILTON I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want somethin...
ROBERT GOULD SHAW [Her] love and tenderness gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and writ...
EUGENE O'NEILL I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, e...
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The ...
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Folks never understand the folks they hate.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
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For the fallen and the weak.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the f...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Light is the symbol of truth
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in ma...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrift...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach ful...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The shadow of a mighty name.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL