"Write about" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I have it in mind to write about was, at the time of which I write, an elderly man, getting well along toward sixty-five. He was tall and slightly stooped, with long arms, and big, gnarled, competent-looking hands, which smelled of yellow laundry soap, and had huge, tarnished nails on ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... But the 6 nearer border of this sea, which we call the circle of the world, surrounds its coasts like a wreath. This has become clearly known to men of inquiring mind, even to such as desired to write about it. For not only is the coast itself inhabited, but certain islands off in the sea are habitable. Thus there are to the East in the Indian Ocean, Hippodes, Iamnesia, Solis Perusta (which though not habitable, is yet of ...
— The Origin and Deeds of the Goths • Jordanes
... "I could not write about it," said the girl with a sudden gravity that ennobled her face. "I don't like talking about it; it was ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... to write about men; had some reason for believing he could. He was hoping that his play would open the way to many other things; it looked as though it were going to ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell
... days? It was not out of pure idleness on my part, nor of disregard to your admonition; but when my thoughts were distracted with other things, books just begun inclosing me all around, a whole load of books upon my conscience, I could not possibly rise up to the gate of heaven and write about my angels. You know one can't sometimes sit down to the sublunary, occupation of reading Greek, unless one feels free to it. And writing poetry requires a double liberty, and an inclination which ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon
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