Wounds cannot be cured without searching. Bacon.
Wrap thyself up like a woodlouse, and dream revenge. Congreve.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Pr.
Write how you will, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Goldsmith.
Write, so much given to God; thou shalt be 40 heard. George Herbert.
Write thy wrongs in ashes. Sir T. Browne.
Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers—they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. Mary Wortley Montagu.
Writing is not literature unless it gives to the reader a pleasure which arises not only from the things said, but from the way in which they are said; and that pleasure is only given when the words are carefully or curiously or beautifully put together into sentences. Stopford Brooke.
Written all of it (Christianity) in us already in sympathetic ink. Bible awakens it, and you can read. Dr. Chalmers to Carlyle in conversation.
Wrong is not only different from right, but it is in strict scientific terms infinitely different. Carlyle.