If a 25-year old can’t read and write and he or she isn’t gaining marketable skills, it doesn’t matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I’m sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one’s pants to the seat of one’s chair.

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

I’ve been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw

I don’t really set out to please anybody, and I don’t think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

All I wanted,′ London said later, ’was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don’t know it.

When I write a goal down – and I truly write them down – it becomes a part of me. That’s a contract that I sign with myself to say, ‘I don’t care what happens – I’m going to stay on this path. I’m going to try and see this through; I’m going to give it my best shot, my best effort.

It’s just a freak of fate that I’m paid to write, not paying to print my own books – but I’d be doing it anyway: it’s my life.

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I’m in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself.

I don’t write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke

Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.

I don’t write; I just go in the booth

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don’t add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

I’ve been trying to write since 1998 after dropping out of Visual Communication from Loyola. My parents have been supportive

I’ve followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don’t have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don’t.

I am not a methodical singer. I don’t follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart – whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

I write a lot because, if I don’t, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called ‘Notice Me’. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can’t even imagine how terrible it is.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it’s OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven’t in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

What I write is not for little girls

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

I was born to travel and write verse

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

To write is to bear witness to the world

Writing is a way to explore the human condition

A book is a conversation between the writer and the reader.

Writing is an act of empathy, a way of stepping into the shoes of others and seeing the world from their perspective

A writer’s job is to challenge our assumptions and make us see the world in a new light

The more of my readers I encounter who say, often apologetically, that they are actually listeners, the more I write for the ear rather than the eye. Small things like identifying speakers in dialogue rather than relying on paragraphing to mark the shifts.

If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku.

I could not write about “ordinary people” because I am not in the least interested in them.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

When I write a play or a novel, I write the ending and am responsible for it. Tolstoy has every right to throw Anna Karenina under the train. She begins in his imagination, and he has to take responsibility for her until the reader does. But the life of a living human being, no one writes it. You cannot deal with another human being as though he were a fictional creation.” (In an interview with David C. Estes)

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

I don’t think you can write a book that’s worth anything without extraordinary discipline.

A drug more harmful than the so-called heroic drugs has entered the national culture: easy money. The idea flourished that the law is the greatest obstacle to happiness, that learning to read and write is useless, that one lives better and safer as a criminal than as good people. In short: the state of social perversion typical of every larvae war.

As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

In terms of love, you’re not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I’m a very tragic person. But there’s always an element of humor at the end

Writing is prayer.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.” [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]

I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don’t, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all season

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality

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.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

I write to find out what I didn’t know I knew.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don’t know why people shouldn’t write poetry. That’s brave.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

I’ve wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

There’s a lot of people I’d like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision—the precious rays of light shining from the throne.

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn’t write it down and sign it, don’t say it.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word “crisis.” One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

I won’t let people write anything they want to about me.

We make generals today on the basis of their ability to write a damned letter. Those kinds of men can’t get us ready for war.

Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.

I don’t want to live in a hand-me-down world of others’ experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

Whatever I write in email, it doesn’t mean anything. It is just words I write.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Now I’m a boss, I write my own name on the checks

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Life is better lived than conceptualized. This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

I didn’t want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.