All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
David Ogilvy

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.
David Ogilvy

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Albert Camus

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
Lewis Carroll

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Lenny Bruce

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
Chuck Palahniuk

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Virginia Woolf