Quotable Quotes - 8 by Quotes

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.

There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.

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.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

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