I think I did pretty
well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.--Steve Martin
Writing a book is a
adventure. To begin with it is a toy and amusement. Then it becomes a mistress,
then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just
as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and
fling him out to the public.--Winston Churchill
Some editors are
failed writers, but so are most writers.--T. S. Eliot
When a book, any
sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes
literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character,
emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a
perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a
great pitcher has over a ball.--Raymond Chandler
No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period
put just at the right place.--Isaac Babel
A tired exclamation
mark is a question mark.--Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Any word you have to
hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this
rule.--Stephen King
I'm all in favor of
keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.--Solomon Short
In a thousand words
I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by
Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and
almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to
trade for all that?--Roy H. Williams
Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.--P. G. Wodehouse
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's
appreciated.--Jorge
Luis Borges