I love being a writer. What I can't
stand is the paperwork."
Peter De Vries
"About the most originality
that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal
with good judgment."
Josh Billings
"I have always been a huge admirer of my own work.
I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers
I know."
Mel Brooks (on writing his Memoirs)
"[I work until] beer o’clock."
Stephen King On his 9 to 5 writing day, Time - 6 Oct 86
"I never know what I think about something until
I read what I've written on it."
William Faulkner
"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have
not had the time to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal
"The free-lance writer is the person who is paid
per piece or per word or perhaps."
Robert Benchley
"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
"The only reason for being a professional writer
is that you can't help it."
Leo Rosten
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction
has to make sense."
Tom Clancy
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