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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best, Heart, Year

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Writing, Worth, Reading

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain

Time, Writing, Editor

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

History, Intend

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

History, Past, Leave

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Morning, Live

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou

Heart, Brain, Through

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou

Heart, After, Natural

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Writing, Dead, Worth

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

Wisdom, Poetry, Mean

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan Poe

Wish, Mysterious, Cat

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Yourself, Bad

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Injuries, Dust, Benefits

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

Writing, Through, Cry

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Injuries, Dust, Benefits

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age, Rather, Next

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Men, Passion

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life, Understand, Why

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

Live, Down, Sit

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.
Eminem

Down, Thoughts, Whole

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau

Done, Speak, Read

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Nothing, Luck

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw

Down, Find, Enough

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

Money, Business, Poor

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Paulo Coelho

Hurt, Someone, Soul

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hero, Show, Tragedy

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa

Rock, Talk, Read

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Albert Camus

Clearly, Readers

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Giving, Able

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
Brad Thor

Freedom, Live, Powerful

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