He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but…

“What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?”

— J.M. Coetzee

“Day had gotten a little nervous during one session when the doctor asked God how he would handle someone hurting Day now and his…

— A.E. Via

This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a…

— Rumi

Be her man during the day & her lover at night. but, be her king 24 /7.

— Sirivi

“I thought your boyfriend died?" Nicky asked, and it was actually a good question, and I was so mad that I wasn't even embarrassed…

— Amy Lane

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get…

— Mark Rylance

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or…

— Harriet Martineau

Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or…

— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

— Horace

“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have…

— Donna Scrima-Black

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself…

— Jean de la Bruyere

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon