(1) Writing is nothing more than a guided dream – (Jorge Luis Borge)

(2) If your writing falls apart, it probably has no primary idea to hold it together – (Sheridan Baker)

(3) Write the way an architect builds, who first drafts his plan and designs every details – (Schopenhauer)

(4) The investigation of words is the beginning of education – (Antisthenes the Sophist)

(5) What is written without effort is, in general, read without pleasure – (Dr Samuel Johnson)

(6) True ease in writing comes from art, not chance – (Alexandra Pope)

(7) Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man – (Francis Bacon)

(8) Always be nice to those younger than you because they are the ones who will be writing about you – (Yril Connolly)

(9) Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they are busy – (Charles Peters)

(10) Television has raised writing to a new low – (Samuel Goldwyn)

(11) It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give up because by that time I was too famous – (Robert Benchley)

(12) Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every English man thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable – (Tom Margerison)

(13) Tomorrow’s illiterate will no longer be the person who cannot read. Tomorrow’s illiterate will be the person who has not learned how to write – (Alvin Toffler)

(14) Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gang. With trust, words become life itself – (John Harold)

(15) Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them – (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

(16) Words are, of course, the most powerful drugs used by mankind – (Rudyard Kipling)

(17) A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever – (Jessamyn West)

(18) Words without actions are the assassins of idealism – (Herbert Hoover)

(19) A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used – (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Source : “FAQs About The English Language” published by the Civil Service College, Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM).