About Writers

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

–Thomas Mann

“The first thing an unpublished writer should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place.  With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.”

–John Farrar

“When I hear about writer’s block, this one and that one! Fuck off! Stop writing, for Christ’s sake: Plenty more where you came from.”

–Gore Vidal

“What I adore is supreme professionalism.  I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.”

–Noel Coward

“There comes a moment in the day, when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do.  Then comes the hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.”

– H.G. Wells

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching.  It’s a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.”

–Morley Callaghan

“They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.”

–Robert Heinlein

“Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.”

–F. Scott Fitzgerald.