Katharine Kingsley has the best definition of
a novelist: a person who sits in a small room and talks to a computer about the intimate lives of people who don’t exist.
"I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around.
Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have
tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my
sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning."
--Philip Roth
"You have to write badly to write well. You need to have your standards low enough ot
get something on the page."
--Donald M. Murray
“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
- - Red (Walter Wellesley) Smith
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"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
--Agatha Christie
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time
unlike, say, a brain surgeon."
--Robert Cromier
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should
be doing something else."
-- Gloria Steinem
“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.”
--Stephen King
"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
--Joseph Heller |
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." --Anton
Chekhov
