Voltaire Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• To hold a pen is to be at war.

  Voltaire

  Peace, War, Writing

  Letter to Jeanne-Grâce Bosc du Bouchet, comtesse d'Argental, October 04, 1748.

• The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

  Voltaire

  Writing, Enemy, Adjectives

• Writing is the painting of the voice.

  Voltaire

  Writing, Voice, Painting

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.170

• Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Writing

  "Timeline: a history of free speech" by David Smith, Luc Torres, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2006.

• The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

  Voltaire

  Writing, Hatred, Rewards

• Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

  Voltaire

  Stupid, Book, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

  Voltaire

  Writing, Names, Snow

• The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

  Voltaire

  Writing, Facts, Dictionary

• You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

  Voltaire

  Art, Writing, Forgotten

• If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

  Voltaire

  Philosophical, Writing, Rome

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