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Writers’ Quotes on Writing – A Second Dozen
By Deb
This post continues a 7-part series of quotations from writers throughout the ages on the subject of writing — a dozen a day assuming I counted correctly. Some are inspirational. Others are more tongue-in-cheek. A number are downright pithy and then there’s everything in between. Feel free to tweet the link to this post to share with other writers. http://www.debgallardo.com/virtuoso/1055/writers-on-writing-a-second-dozen/
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~ Douglas Adams
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. ~ John Campbell
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any. ~ Orson Scott Card
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with. ~ Nancy Ann Dibble
Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman’s name out of a satire then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer–and if so, why? ~ Bennett Cerf
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it. ~ Charles Caleb Cotton
Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it… ~ Michael Crichton
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. ~ Richard Curtis
I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork. ~ Peter de Vries
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~ E. L. Doctorow
Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money. ~ J. P. Donleavy
If it has horses and swords in it, it’s a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case it becomes science fiction. The only thing that’ll turn a story with a rocketship in it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail. ~ Debra Doyle
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