Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Thomas Moore

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
John Updike

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
John Cleese

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
John Cleese

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
Bryan Adams

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
Bryan Adams

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.
Kathy Griffin

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
Marty Feldman

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
Syd Barrett

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
John Hughes

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
John Hughes

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
Fiona Apple

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
Fiona Apple

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
Fiona Apple

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Fiona Apple

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
Charlotte Bronte

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
Christopher Columbus

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
Neil Gaiman