A Quote by George Crabbe

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

George Crabbe

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Often Reads Sometimes Will Wish Write

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George Crabbe
English - Poet
December 24, 1754 - February 3, 1832

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

Gerald Brenan

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

Nancy Pickard

Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.

Taylor Swift

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.

Sara Shepard

I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.

Louis C. K.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Annie Dillard

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

M. Night Shyamalan

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.

Sayed Kashua

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

Clint Eastwood

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Salman Rushdie

Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.

Johann Johannsson

I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.

Stuart Adamson

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

Alexander Whyte

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.