Writing quotes I found while perusing the files on my laptop

[apocalypsos]

A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. -- C.S. Lewis

Being a writer means having homework for the rest of your life. -- Lawrence Kasdan (*snerk* It's like I always say ... I do English homework for fun.)

The girl doesn't, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the "curiosity" level. -- a rejection slip for The Diary of Anne Frank

These stories have trees in them. -- a rejection slip for A River Runs Through It

One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel. -- John Gardner (Jesus, I don't think I know any writers who aren't at least a little nuts.)

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid. -- Katherine Paterson (Well, I know it's helped me. :))

Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an 'injustice collector' and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity. -- Edmund Bergler, M.D. (Yeah, that sounds about right.)

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. -- William Saroyan

Getting even is one reason for writing. -- William Gass

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. -- Wendy Cope

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. -- Isaac Asimov

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy clothes and food. -- Erasmus

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. -- Bill Hirst

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. -- Agatha Christie (I had to add that one just because that totally works for me.)

Comments

washing dishes

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i heard a number of female thriller/suspense writers say the same thing as agatha christie. hands in warm soapy water, mind clear.

i do suspect it has more to do with them being female than being suspense writers though.