TEN FAVORITE QUOTES ABOUT WRITING

1. “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”

- L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology

2. “Never throw up on an editor.”

- some excellent advice from Ellen Datlow

3.”The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”

- Ernest Hemingway

4.”If you really want to hurt your parents and you don’t have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

photograph: Pinguino

5.”I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”

- Stephen King.

photo: Christopher Peterson

6.”Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.”

- Ivana Trump, after finishing her first novel

7. “It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

- Ernest Hemingway again

8.”What’s another word for thesaurus?”

- the inimitable Steven Wright

9.  “I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

- e e cummings

10. “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”

- Hunter S. Thompson.

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