Quotes About Writing

When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.

Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.

I write to express and I shop to destress

I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage.

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary.""A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?

I try to read and write something interesting every day.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

Yes, I could stop writing... But only after I shoot myself.

How many great gems were lost to thoughtand not put down to pen.You can but think of just a fewand then they're lost again.

Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.

Ghost Hampton" took me years to write -- but it won't take you that long to read!