| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN." »Anonymous |
| "There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves." »Mark S. Hertzog |
| "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 |
| "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." »A. J. Liebling |
| "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 |
| "We do not write because we want to we write because we have to." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." »Cyril Connolly |
| "Why do writers write Because it isn't there." »Thomas Berger |
| "I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." »Samuel Goldwyn |
| "You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better." »Maxim Gorky |
| "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 |
| "Life is God's novel. Let him write it." »Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| "You can not write in the chimney with charcoal." »Assyrian Proverb |
| "Never write a letter while you are angry." »Chinese Proverb |
| "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." »Winston Churchill |
| "Write a wise saying and your name will live forever" »Anonymous |
| "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." »Juan Ramon Jiminez |
| "Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped." »Lillian Hellman |
| "Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present." »English Proverb |
| "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." »Winston Churchill |
| "I write music with an exclamation point" »Richard Wagner |
| "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." »William Carlos Williams |
| "Only the hand that erases can write the true thing." »Meister Eckhart |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
