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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

This place is full of unwritten rules.

Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.64, Faber & Faber

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.20, Random House

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

"To set the darkness echoing". Interview with Dennis O'Driscoll, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

Madeleine Albright (2001). “Madam Secretary”, Miramax Books

No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.

Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.769, Penguin

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

Colley Cibber, Sir Richard Steele, George Farquhar, sir John Vanbrugh, William Congreve (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. INCONSTANT. By Mr. Farzuhar ; LOVE FOR LOVE. By Mr. Congreve ; LOVE MAKES A MAN. By C. Cibber, Esq. ; LYING LOVER. By Sir Rich. Steele ; PROVOKED WIFE. By Sir John Vanbrugh. VOL. V.”

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.180, Hackett Publishing

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press