Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

Hey, Hachi People always say that you only discover how precious something is after you lose it--- but I think, you only really recognize…

— Ai Yazawa

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

Sometimes we have to lose something precious in order to gain something priceless.

— Anonymous

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either…

— Edward Said

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to…

— John Bolton

“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no…

— J.M. McDermott

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write…

— Isabel Allende

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of…

— Harper Lee

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis