I’ve always believed writing ads is the second most…

“Writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.”

— Phil Dusenberry

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...

— Anonymous

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said,…

— Demetri Martin

Ransom notes keep falling out of your mouth, mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut offs, speak no feeling, no I dont believe you. You dont…

— Anonymous

“...publishing ransom notes until the punk gets it...”

— Punk Hostage Press

“Whenever I'm asked what kind of writing is the most lucrative, I have to say ransom notes.”

— H.N. Swanson

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that…

— Nathan Englander

The love religion is all that is written here.

— Rumi

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,…

— John Flansburgh

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad…

— Jesse Owens