People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
Michael Jackson

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
George Orwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise Pascal

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Lord Byron

I got to write most of everything I said.
R. Lee Ermey

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
Oprah Winfrey

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
George W. Bush

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
George W. Bush

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck

If you wish to be a writer, write.
Epictetus