Famous Quotes About Writing and Writers
Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until a drop of blood forms on your forehead. - Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
It takes an awful long time to not write a book. - Douglas Adams
[The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for. - Douglas Adams
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible. - Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody praises and nobody has read. - Mark Twain
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs— unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. - Hunter S Thompson
I have spent half my life trying to get away from journalism, but I am still mired in it — a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world full of misfits and drunkards and failures. - Hunter S Thompson
So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here—not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. - Hunter S Thompson
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar. - Stephen King
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. - Stephen King
The first draft of anything is always shit - Ernest Hemingway
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - T S Eliot