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| The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice | | Mark Twain | |
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| There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word. | | Marshall McLuhan | |
| There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. | | Albert Camus | |
| To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature | | William Shakespeare | |
| To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. | | William Shakespeare | |
| To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. | | Herman Melville | |
| To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. Jean-Jacques Rousseau | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts | | Paul Valery | |
| Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. | | Gore Vidal | |
| We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. | | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. | | Arthur Miller | |
| Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. | | Wendell Phillips | |
| Write without pay until somebody offers to pay | | Mark Twain | |
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| Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. | | Winston Churchill | |
| Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week. | | Bette Midler | |
