Don't get it right, just get it written.
James Thurber

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Walter Bagehot

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Nicholas Sparks

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
Henry Van Dyke

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
Waylon Jennings

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
Nora Roberts

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Nora Roberts

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
Gustave Flaubert

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound

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

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
Jackie Collins

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
Alicia Keys

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
Lynn Abbey

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
Lynn Abbey

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
Lynn Abbey