Great writers struggle with their writing, just like regular people do. Sometimes they cope with humor, sometimes with wit. Whatever avenue they choose to express themselves, their thoughts on writing are memorable.
If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. Isaac Asimov
Contests are wonderful whetstones for sharpening a manuscript.
Elizabeth Lyon
Sir, I admit your gen'ral rule
That every poet is a fool;
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.
That every poet is a fool;
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.
Alexander Pope
The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book. Raymond Chandler
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. Marcel Proust
It's easy to get an agent. What's hard is writing a salable book.
Michael Larsen
A good book has no ending.
R.D. Cumming
A good book has no ending.
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