1. Tracer les signes d'un système d'écriture, de représentation graphique des sons d'un langage, de la parole : Écrire un « m », un mot, un chiffre.
Synonymes :
gribouiller - griffonner
2. Former les lettres, les signes, avoir tel ou tel type d'écriture, employer tel ou tel système d'écriture : Écrire son nom lisiblement.Écrire la somme en toutes lettres.
1. Utiliser les signes graphiques, l'écriture : Apprendre à écrire.
2. Tracer les signes de l'écriture en usant d'un instrument, d'une substance, ou former les lettres d'une certaine façon : Écrire à l'encre.Écrire gros.
3. Laisser sur une surface une trace propre à représenter les signes graphiques : Ce stylo écrit très fin.
4. Faire œuvre d'écrivain, faire métier de rédacteur : Il a toujours voulu écrire.
5. Avoir tel style, employer tel procédé d'expression : Il écrit merveilleusement bien.
être écrit
verbe passif
1. Être noté, inscrit par l'écriture : Discours écrit.
2. Être rendu par tel ou tel style, dans telle ou telle langue ou forme de langage : C'est écrit en anglais.
machine destinée à établir des documents au moyen de caractères et de symboles simulant ceux de l'imprimerie, et commandés par la manœuvre des touches d'un clavier.
être écrit
verbe passif
C'est, c'était écrit,
cela est, était fatal, inévitable.
Épreuve écrite,
épreuve d'examen qui se fait par écrit.
Feuille, page écrite,
recouverte d'écriture.
Langue écrite,
ensemble des formes spécifiques que l'on utilise lorsqu'on rédige des textes (par opposition à langue parlée).
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (Montbard 1707-Paris 1788) Ceux qui écrivent comme ils parlent, quoiqu'ils parlent très bien, écrivent mal. Discours sur le style, prononcé à l'Académie française, le jour de sa réception, 25 août 1753
Paul Claudel (Villeneuve-sur-Fère, Aisne, 1868-Paris 1955) Je n'attache absolument aucun prix à la valeur littéraire de mon œuvre […] Charpentier, j'aurais mis la même conscience à bien raboter une planche que celle qu'en écrivant je mets à bien écrire. Propos (à A. Gide) , Gallimard
René Descartes (La Haye, aujourd'hui Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, 1596-Stockholm 1650) Je prends beaucoup plus de plaisir à m'instruire moi-même que non pas à mettre par écrit le peu que je sais. Correspondance, à Mersenne, 15 avril 1630
Georges Duhamel (Paris 1884-Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, 1966) Académie française, 1935 Le moment est venu de rechercher en toutes choses les limites de la machine et de poser en principe que, si l'on écrit à Dieu, il faut écrire à la main. Querelles de famille, Mercure de France
Gustave Flaubert (Rouen 1821-Croisset, près de Rouen, 1880) Académie française, 1880 Écrit, bien écrit : Mot de portiers pour désigner les romans-feuilletons qui les amusent. Dictionnaire des idées reçues
Xavier Forneret (Beaune 1809-Beaune 1884) L'Homme noir, l'auteur de ce quasi-livre, ne veut pas Écrire ; c'est Écrire qui a voulu et veut l'auteur. Sans titre, par un homme noir, blanc de visage
Charles de Gaulle (Lille 1890-Colombey-les-Deux-Églises 1970) Tout homme qui écrit - et qui écrit bien, sert la France. Propos recueillis par André Malraux dans Les Chênes qu'on abat, Gallimard
Charles de Gaulle (Lille 1890-Colombey-les-Deux-Églises 1970) Écrire permet d'oublier la meute. Propos recueillis par André Malraux dans Les Chênes qu'on abat, Gallimard
Remy de Gourmont (Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne, 1858-Paris 1915) Une pensée fausse n'est jamais bien écrite, ni mal écrite une pensée juste. Il y a là quelque chose d'inséparable. Promenades littéraires, Mercure de France
Jean Grenier (Paris 1898-Dreux 1971) Écrire, c'est mettre en ordre ses obsessions. Albert Camus, Gallimard
William Hazlitt (Maidstone, Kent, 1778-Londres 1830) Mieux vaut ne savoir ni lire ni écrire que d'être incapable de rien faire d'autre. It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. On the Ignorance of the Learned
Joseph Joubert (Montignac, Corrèze, 1754-Villeneuve-sur-Yonne 1824) Souviens-toi de cuver ton encre. Pensées
Joseph Joubert (Montignac, Corrèze, 1754-Villeneuve-sur-Yonne 1824) Pour bien écrire, il faut une facilité naturelle et une difficulté acquise. Pensées
Joseph Joubert (Montignac, Corrèze, 1754-Villeneuve-sur-Yonne 1824) Quand on écrit avec facilité, on croit toujours avoir plus de talent qu'on n'en a. Carnets
Jean de La Bruyère (Paris 1645-Versailles 1696) La gloire ou le mérite de certains hommes est de bien écrire ; et de quelques autres, c'est de n'écrire point. Les Caractères, Des ouvrages de l'esprit
Paul Léautaud (Paris 1872-Robinson 1956) Il vous vient quelquefois un dégoût d'écrire en songeant à la quantité d'ânes par lesquels on risque d'être lu. Passe-temps, Mercure de France
Paul Léautaud (Paris 1872-Robinson 1956) Je n'écris bien que si j'écris à la diable. Si je veux m'appliquer, je ne fais rien de bon. Passe-temps, Mercure de France
Paul Léautaud (Paris 1872-Robinson 1956) Il n'y a encore que les gens qui écrivent qui sachent lire. Journal littéraire, Mercure de France
Paul Léautaud (Paris 1872-Robinson 1956) Il semble, pour un écrivain, que chaque page qu'il écrit doive être pour lui une nouvelle leçon dans l'art d'écrire. Propos d'un jour, Mercure de France
Pierre Dumarchais, dit PierreMac Orlan (Péronne 1882-Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin 1970) Depuis que j'écris, je compose mes souvenirs. La Petite Cloche de Sorbonne, Gallimard
Stéphane Mallarmé (Paris 1842-Valvins, Seine-et-Marne, 1898) Sait-on ce que c'est qu'écrire ? Une ancienne et très vague mais jalouse pratique, dont gît le sens au mystère du cœur. Quelques Médaillons et portraits en pied, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Clément Marot (Cahors 1496-Turin 1544) Un homme ne peut bien écrire, S'il n'est quelque peu bon lisart*. Épîtres, Du coq à l'âne *lecteur
François Mauriac (Bordeaux 1885-Paris 1970) Académie française, 1933 Écrire, c'est se souvenir. Mais lire, c'est aussi se souvenir. Mémoires intérieurs, Flammarion
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (château de Montaigne, aujourd'hui commune de Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, Dordogne, 1533-château de Montaigne, aujourd'hui commune de Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, Dordogne, 1592) Je parle au papier comme je parle au premier que je rencontre. Essais, III, 1
Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (château de La Brède, près de Bordeaux, 1689-Paris 1755) Pour écrire bien, il faut sauter les idées intermédiaires, assez pour n'être pas ennuyeux ; pas trop, de peur de n'être pas entendu. Mes pensées
Gaétan Picon (Bordeaux 1915-Paris 1976) Écrire n'étant rien d'autre qu'avoir le temps de dire : je meurs. L'Œil double, Gallimard
Platon (Athènes vers 427-Athènes vers 348 ou 347 avant J.-C.) Écrire sur l'eau. Phèdre, 276c (traduction S. Weil)
Quintilien en latin Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Calagurris Nassica, aujourd'hui Calahorra, Espagne, vers 30-vers 100 après J.-C.) On écrit pour raconter, non pour prouver. Institution oratoire, I, 31 Scribitur ad narrandum, non ad probandum.
Ernest Renan (Tréguier 1823-Paris 1892) On ne doit jamais écrire que de ce qu'on aime. Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, Préface , Lévy
Commentaire Mot de Néron au moment de signer une condamnation à mort. Il est également rapporté par Suétone.
Paul Valéry (Sète 1871-Paris 1945) Écrire purement en français, c'est un soin et un amusement qui récompense quelque peu l'ennui d'écrire. Choses tues, Gallimard
Paul Valéry (Sète 1871-Paris 1945) Mais je trouvais indigne, et je le trouve encore, d'écrire par le seul enthousiasme. L'enthousiasme n'est pas un état d'âme d'écrivain. Variété, Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci , Gallimard
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Dublin 1854-Paris 1900) Il n'existe pas de livre moral ou immoral. Un livre est bien écrit ou mal écrit, c'est tout. Le Portrait de Dorian Gray, Préface There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Preface
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