Must Quotes

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.