Some of my collection over time. I use them from time to time on my facebook page and website
"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know until he takes up a pen to write"
- William Thackeray
"The pen is the tongue of the mind "
- Miguel de Cervantes
"No writing is a waste of time, no creative work where feelings, the imagination,
the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned
something. It has done you good."
- Brenda Ueland
"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. "
- Virginia Woolf
The palest ink is better than the best memory
- Chinese Proverb
"Writing is almost as important as speaking, as a medium for communicating thought. For this reason, it is said that 'Writing is a secondary power of speech, and they who cannot write are in part dumb.' Scrawls that cannot be read may be compared to talking that cannot be understood; and writing difficult to decipher, to stammering speech."
- From the Introductory Remarks to the "Theory of Spencerian Penmanship", a 19th century manual for schools teaching this form of script.
"If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams."
- Terri Guillemets
"A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. "
- Jane Austen
"You want to be a writer, but don't know how or when?
Find a quiet place, use a humble pen."
— Paul Simon, Hurricane Eye
Hysterical.