What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson
I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true. Katharine Hepburn
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. Dorothy Parker
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. Elizabeth Bowen
What is written is merely the dregs of experience. Franz Kafka
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written. Italo Calvino