The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
Steven Wright

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

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Will Rogers

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson