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A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it gives the…

— Monty Don

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of…

— Al Yankovic

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

— William Safire

“Dear Editor: It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check. ”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish…

— Robert B. Parker

If you write to me and it takes a day for me to write back, don't take it personally.

— Daniel Ek

“When asked by her publisher why her work had not been submitted while on her honeymoon: "I've been too fucking busy or vice versa”

— Dorothy Parker

The first time I ever wrote anything, it was an editorial column for my high school newspaper.

— Nahnatchka Khan

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

— Joss Whedon

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

— Milt Kamen

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

— Mark Twain