I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
Taylor Caldwell

I often reread books I have written.
Taylor Caldwell

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

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Written reports stifle creativity.
Ross Perot

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
Jules Renard

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton

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

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
Adolf Galland

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
Syd Barrett

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

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Ani DiFranco

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
Dana Carvey

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Neil Gaiman

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
Dawn French