Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
— Miss Manners
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
— Christopher Marlowe
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
— Joseph Heller
A professional writer is an amateur that didn’t quit.
— Richard Bach
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
— Sidonie Gabrielle
Write without pay until someone offers to pay.
— Mark Twain
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
— William Styron
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
— Winston Churchill
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
— Moliere
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
— James Thurber
I just wandered in here today 9/19/08 because of an automatic link generated by WordPress at my blog. Another writing site as it works out.
I see you hit a block again. I don’t recall where the quote came from, or the exact wording, it was from a published author though; it goes like this — “A writer is someone who doesn’t really like to write, only to have writen.” There is a lot of truth in that statement. Hope you come around.