Robert Frost: Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.
Flannery O’Connor: Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
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.
George Orwell: In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
Steven Wright: I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.
Steven Wright: I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.
William S. Burroughs: In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
Gustave Flaubert: The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Stephen King: I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
Ernest Hemingway: Write drunk, edit sober.
Ernest Hemingway: Write drunk, edit sober.
Hunter S. Thompson: The only thing to be said this time about Fear & Loathing is that it was fun to write and that’s fair, for me at least because I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work.
Elmore Leonard: I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
Isaac Asimov: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
Elmore Leonard: I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
Isaac Asimov: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
