Ronald Reagan on Writing
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Robert Heinlein on Writing
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Ring Lardner on Writing
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Ray Bradbury on Writing
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Pliny the Younger on Writing
There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.
Pliny the Elder on Writing
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Oscar Wilde on Writing
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Lord Brabazon on Writing
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
Lord Acton on Writing
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Leonard Bernstein on Writing
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.