What's the difference between using と and を in the sentence below:

> 「食べる」と紙に書いてくれた
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> 「食べる」を紙に書いてくれた

They both mean, He wrote "eat" on the paper
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What's the difference when using と and を to mark a spoken sentence
The latter is wrong. You should use **quotative** -と because 食べる is what is
concretely written on paper. ～を書く is okay when the object is something
abstract such as 文字, 漢字, 手紙 and 物語.

**EDIT:** Actually, as @broccoliforest pointed out, `「食べる」を書く` is also
acceptable in a rare context where the "message" or "content" is **not**
relevant. If you say `「食べる」を書く`, it sounds like the focus is on the appearance
of the characters rather than the message conveyed by 食べる. For example, you
may hear this when you are talking with your calligraphy teacher about how to
write 食べる correctly with a brush. Although `「食べる」を書く` is unrealistic in
practice, you may safely say something like this:

> 練習のために平仮名の「め」を100回書いた。  
>  I wrote the hiragana 'ME' 100 times for practice.
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