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Dec. 28th, 2006 09:30 amWhy do writers write? Because it isn't there. --Thomas Berger
One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate your own wit. Of course, this can be carried too far. But it's kind of cool when you crack up a piece of writing, and then realize you wrote it. I recommend this feeling. --Steven Brust
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground. --Edward Gibbon
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it. --Leo Rosten
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. --Thomas Mann
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God. --Sidney Sheldon
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. --Clarence Budington Kelland
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them. --Raymond Chandler
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. --Samuel Lover
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. --Terry Pratchett
A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge. --Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. --T. S. Eliot
If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper. --T. S. Eliot
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talk about writing or themselves. --Lillian Hellman
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. --Kurt Vonnegut
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. --George Bernard Shaw
Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know." --Wislawa Szymborska
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. --Frederic Raphael
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. --William Faulkner
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So of course it would've made more sense to write, than to just post what other people have to say about writing...but sometimes it's good to hear from the greats and the not-so-greats before starting out on a journey.
One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate your own wit. Of course, this can be carried too far. But it's kind of cool when you crack up a piece of writing, and then realize you wrote it. I recommend this feeling. --Steven Brust
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground. --Edward Gibbon
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it. --Leo Rosten
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. --Thomas Mann
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God. --Sidney Sheldon
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. --Clarence Budington Kelland
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them. --Raymond Chandler
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. --Samuel Lover
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. --Terry Pratchett
A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge. --Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. --T. S. Eliot
If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper. --T. S. Eliot
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talk about writing or themselves. --Lillian Hellman
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. --Kurt Vonnegut
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. --George Bernard Shaw
Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know." --Wislawa Szymborska
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. --Frederic Raphael
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. --William Faulkner
So of course it would've made more sense to write, than to just post what other people have to say about writing...but sometimes it's good to hear from the greats and the not-so-greats before starting out on a journey.