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Quotable quotes about writing

12/21/2013

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Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.- Walter Bagehot

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. - Wilson Mizner

 Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.  - Emiio Estevez

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.  - Irvin S Cobb

A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - G K Chesterton

 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


Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. - Oliver Herford

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. Flannery O' Connor

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. Ernest Hemingway

A blank sheet of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. - Sidney Sheldon

A story should be like a lady's dress - long enough to cover the details, short enough to capture attention - R A Butler

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.- Douglas Adams

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.- Erica Jong

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