Definition of Writing

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Writing

of Write

The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.

Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters

Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.

Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.

An inscription.

Handwriting; chirography.

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Writing Quotations

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mohandas Gandhi

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Steven Wright

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
Steven Wright

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Will Rogers

Writing Translations

writing in Afrikaans is skrif
writing in Dutch is geschrift, schriftuur
writing in German is schreibend, schreiben, schreibend, schreibenden
writing in Italian is vergare, scrittura
writing in Portuguese is escrita
writing in Spanish is escritura, letra
writing in Swedish is skriver, skrift

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