If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ---Don Marquis
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.---Thomas Mann
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.---John Updike
I love writing.
I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.--James Michener
Write down the thoughts of the moment.
Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. --Francis Bacon
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that,
if you were unimaginative,
would take you only a minute.
Or you might not write the paragraph at all.------Franklin P. Adams
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
----Arthur Polotnik