1. write - Noun
2. write - Verb
To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
To compose or send letters.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. Karl Marx
To write is to read one's own self. Max Frisch
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates
Never write what you dare not sign. English Proverb
If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. American Proverb
You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal. Russian Proverb