There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

Walt Whitman

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Gertrude Stein

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Francis Bacon

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald