Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Ben Franklin 

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) 

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne  , Winnie the Pooh, character from author

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977) 

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965) 

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
Anonymous  English Professor, Ohio University

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) 

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White 

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
Bill Hirst