Few men make themselves masters of the things they write…

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a…

— Hill Harper

“But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us”

— Paulo Coelho

“If you love someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you…

— Ally Condie, Crossed

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have…

— Buchi Emecheta

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak…

— William Hazlitt

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.”

— Antjie Krog

“Never write when you can speak. Never speak when you can nod. Never nod when you can blink.”

— M.B. Walsh

“Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with…

— William Hazlitt

“Moreover, liars write less than they speak.”

— Edouard Levé

“Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no…

— Dinty W. Moore

“I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously doubting…

— Ann Medlock

“If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life…

— Gerald R. Ford

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by…

— Ntozake Shange

I write-down to speak-up.

— Anonymous