Country Quote by Edwin O. Reischauer

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six…

— Mark David Ledbetter

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

— Rupert Holmes

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

— Miguel de Icaza

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

— Paulo Coelho

Writing is hustling of another kind.

— John Rechy

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

— Lisa Kudrow

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

— Louis Pasteur

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

— Robert Hass