I love being a writer. What I
can't stand is the paperwork.
-- Peter De Vries |
[Introducing the best adapted
screenplay]
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The
word they didn't change was on page 87.
-- Steve Martin |
I have always been a
huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining
writers I know.
-- Mel Brooks |
No man but a blockhead ever
wrote, except for money.
-- Samuel Johnson |
The difference between
fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy |
The free-lance writer is the
person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
-- Robert Benchley |
It took me fifteen
years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it
up because by that time I was too famous.
-- Robert Benchley |
Publication is a
self-invasion of privacy.
-- Marshall McLuhan |
If a writer has to rob his
mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number
of old ladies.
-- William Faulkner |
A writer is congenitally
unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
-- William Faulkner |
I never know what I think
about something until I read what I've written on it.
-- William Faulkner |
About the most
originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with
good judgment.
-- Josh Billings |
[I work until] beer
o’clock.
-- Stephen King |
People want to know why I do
this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of
a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
-- Stephen King |
There are three rules
for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
-- Somerset Maugham |
The profession of
book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
-- John Steinbeck |
The trouble with young
writers is that they are all in their sixties.
-- Somerset Maugham |
