The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Pablo Casals

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Herman Melville

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
David Hume

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.
Henry L. Stimson

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
John Kenneth Galbraith

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
David Ogilvy

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
William Faulkner

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
William Faulkner

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. Du Bois

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Elizabeth Bowen

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

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns