The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
David Herbert LawrenceThere is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly, sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest HemingwayMethod is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
Joseph AddisonIdeally a book would have no order to it and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark TwainFor a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest HemingwayTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander PopeI've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest HemingwayThe best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha ChristieA good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis SingerMy books are like water, those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainThe profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.
John SteinbeckMy aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest HemingwayWords are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself.
Mark TwainWho then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water or but writes in dust.
Francis BaconGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark TwainAuthors have established it as a kind of rule that a man ought to be dull sometimes, as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
Joseph AddisonThe reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston ChurchillI'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually ultimately I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
Alanis MorissetteWriting a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement, then it becomes a mistress and then it becomes a master and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public.
Winston ChurchillAt some point I would like to write a book and other things but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis Morissette