A small collection of fantastic quotes about writing that always put a smile on my face!
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1.”A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
– Sidney Sheldon
2. “A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run.”
– Channing Pollock
3. “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
– E.L. Doctorow
4. “What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.”
– Burton Rascoe
5. “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
– Stephen King
6. “It’s not plagiarism – I’m recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do.”
– Uniek Swain
7. “An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
– Gustave Flaubert
8. “If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don’t remove it – I might be writing in my dreams.”
– Terri Guillemets
9. “Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”
– Robert Benchley
10. “Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
– Truman Capote
11. “I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”
– Stephen King
12. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
– G. K. Chesterton
13. “Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”
– Robert Benchley
14. “The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
– André Gide
15. “Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear – and devils, too.”
– Terri Guillemets
16. “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
– Jules Renard
17. “I write because I’m afraid to say some things out loud.”
– Gordon Atkinson
18. “If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don’t remove it – I might be writing in my dreams.”
– Terri Guillemets
19. “It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.”
– Sinclair Lewis
20. “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
– Saul Bellow
21. “Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.”
– Samuel Johnson
22. “Most editors are failed writers – but so are most writers.”
– T.S. Eliot
23. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
– Don Marquis
24. “A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.”
– Baltasar Gracián
25. “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
– James Michener
26. “Asking a writer what they think about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it thinks about dogs.”
– Christopher Hampton
27. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club”
– Jack London
28. “It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
– Robert Benchley