writingforyourlife

Some favourite quotations:

• Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.  ~Monica Dickens

• I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.  ~Gustave Flaubert
  

• Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.  ~Robert A. Heinlein
  

• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.  ~Red Smith
  

• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.  ~Oscar Wilde
  

• I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland
  

• There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write.  ~Terry Pratchett
  

• I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.  ~P. G. Wodehouse
  

• If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  

• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.  ~G. K. Chesterton
  

• You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.  ~William Gibson
  

• If you think that something small cannot make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.  ~Anonymous
  

• There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.  ~H.L. Mencken

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