Fun Quotes About Writing
I’ve always believed that writing is risk-taking behavior. We reveal so much of who we are and what we care about when we write. Approaching our daily work as writers with humor somehow makes it all less scary.
Over the years, I’ve collected a few of my favorite fun quotes about writing. Here are ten of them:
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
- Somerset Maugham
“Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
- Gene Fowler
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
- Thomas Mann
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
- Douglas Adams
“Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.”
- Lev Grossman
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
-Isaac Asimov
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
- L. Doctorow
“I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.”
- Louise Brown
“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.”
- Elmore Leonard
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
- Robert Benchley
How about you? Do you have favorite quotes about writing? I’d love for you to share them!