Quotes About Writing

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.

Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.

I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.

Assad: 'I have written it just down here.'He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have meant it was going to snow in the Lofoten Islands in the morning.

To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.

If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!

I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.