"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography
until after they're dead."
Samuel Goldwyn
"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had
no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because
by that time I was too famous."
Robert Benchley (Robert Benchley by Nathaniel Benchley,
1955)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons
out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
Solomon Short
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more
difficult than it is for other people."
Thomas Mann
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is
an excellent place for it."
Russel Lynes
"People want to know why I do this, why I write
such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart
of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
Stephen King
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed
of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
Robert Heinlein
"All of us learn to write in the second grade.
Most of us go on to greater things."
Bobby Knight
"The profession of book-writing makes horse racing
seem like a solid, stable business."
John Steinbeck
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth
and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
William Faulkner
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