For your enjoyment and maybe as a stimulant to thought - some quotes on writing.
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
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Oliver Herford
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People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber
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The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Ring Lardner
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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson
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A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.
Kenneth Tynan
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A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Cole Porter
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The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
Herman Wouk
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It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
Erle Stanley Gardner
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And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
Beth Henley
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Agatha Christie
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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie
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The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
-Bernard Levin
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings
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
***
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Oliver Herford
***
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
***
Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn
***
Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
***
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber
***
The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain
***
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Ring Lardner
***
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson
***
A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.
Kenneth Tynan
***
A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
***
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Cole Porter
***
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
Herman Wouk
***
It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
Erle Stanley Gardner
***
And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
Beth Henley
***
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
***
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
***
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Agatha Christie
***
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie
***
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
-Bernard Levin
***
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
***
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings
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