Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide

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

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!
Leonardo DiCaprio

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
Stephen Ambrose

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Omar Khayyam

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Henry Adams

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
Harvey Fierstein

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
Fran Drescher

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt

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

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.
Michael Landon

Well I've written four beauty books as well.
Joan Collins

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
Joan Collins

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
Joan Collins