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"There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well." »Pliny the Younger
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"I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop." »Mark Twain
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"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't." »Ernest Hemingway
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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." »Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." »Jack Lemmon
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"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." »Arabic Parable
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"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN." »Anonymous
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"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves." »Mark S. Hertzog
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"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." »A. J. Liebling
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"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"We do not write because we want to we write because we have to." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothing to say." »Enrique Tessieri
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"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Life is God's novel. Let him write it." »Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"Why do writers write Because it isn't there." »Thomas Berger
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"It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must." »Gerald R. Ford
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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." »Cyril Connolly
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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them." »George Orwell
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"You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better." »Maxim Gorky
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"You can not write in the chimney with charcoal." »Assyrian Proverb
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"I will write a book someday. Q.E.D." »Sandy
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"Never write a letter while you are angry." »Chinese Proverb
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"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." »Anonymous
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