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Tag: humor, writing

Robert Benchley

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.

I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards.

Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don’t know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who’ll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie..

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.

It’s my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It’s like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering need to go out and find some unspeakably wild sex, do you rush to tell your mom about it?

For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story…or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Tamara Jasmine Burrell

I go with the flow but I write against it.

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Richard M. Nixon

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

Jennifer Weiner

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?