Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. —Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (born August 31, 1938 in Dallas, Texas) is an American journalist and playwright.
More quotations from Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. —Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey More about this quote Tags: time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. —Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey More about this quote Tags: time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “writing” A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. —Elaine Liner More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. —Edward Gibbon More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. —David Sedaris More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. —Elaine Liner More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. —Edward Gibbon More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. —David Sedaris More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email