To write well it is first necessary to have something to…

It is not only necessary to love, it is necessary to say so.

— Proverb

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as…

— James Laughlin

It is not only necessary to love, Itis necessary to say so.

— French Proverb

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too…

— Andre Gide

“In all kinds of composition, there are two things necessary: first, to have something to say; second, to say it.”

— James Willis Westlake

I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to…

— Teddy Pendergrass

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point,…

— Margaret Laurence

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

— George Washington

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could…

— Robert Greene

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,…

— Robert Graves

I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

— Nora Roberts

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions…

— Kelli O'Hara