"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." - Dean Acheson

"The paper burns, but the words fly away." - Ben Joseph Akiba

"The pen is the tongue of the mind." - Cervantes

"The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen." - Colette

"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post." - Cyril Connolly

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once." - Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson

"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least." - Horace

"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well." - Donald R. Perry Marquis

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads." - George Bernard Shaw

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time." - George Bernard Shaw

"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Bacon, Sir Francis

"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say." - O'Connor, Flannery quoted by Richard E. Cytowic in 'The Man Who Tasted Shapes' 1993