Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
Eddie Murphy

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
Dorothy Day

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Nora Ephron

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
Nora Ephron

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
Simon Travaglia

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Herman Melville

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Ho Chi Minh

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
Bell Hooks

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
David Foster Wallace

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.
Alvin Ailey

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Toni Morrison

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison