| "A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose." »Samuel McChord Crothers |
| "In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is." »Geoffrey Cottrell |
| "I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." »Sandra Cisneros |
| "Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery." »S. O'Brien |
| "Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite." »Edward Albee |
| "A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others." »Leo C. Rosten |
| "Never write a letter while you are angry." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Anger is only one letter short of danger." »Roosevelt, Eleanor |
| "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it." »Mark Twain |
| "To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart." »Phyllis Theroux |
| "Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it." »Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| "My favorite four letter F-Word is Free, It always taste better when someone else pays for it" »Johnny Wowk |
| "I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter." »Blaise Pascal |
| "It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth." »Robert Armstrong |
| "A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "A leader without vision is a stamped letter without address; it can never reach its destination." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive." »John Ernst Steinbeck |
| "Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it." »Alvin Toffler |
| "The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it." »Leo Rosten |
| "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer." »E. B. White |
| "A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution." »Jean-Paul Sartre |
| "There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one." »James T. Farrell |
| "...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, letters to Lucilius on Morals, letter 87, c.63-65" »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism but when you take it from many writers, it's research." »Wilson Mizner |
| "The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him." »Rachel Carson |
| "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann |
| "I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell." »Omar Khayym |
| "I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960" »John Lennon |
| "I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PCIt plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew." »Janet Minor |
| "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away." »Victor Hugo |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
