If I had kept all these things neatly sorted and filed and labelled, it would save me a lot of trouble. However, it is a pleasure sometimes, when looking vaguely through a pile of old note-books to find something scribbled down, as: Possible plot—do it yourself—girl and not really sister—August— with a kind of sketch of a plot. What it's all about I can't remember now; but it often stimulates me, if not to write that identical plot, at least to write something else. —Agatha Christie in An Autobiography More about this quote Tags: writing organization piles plot Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: learning writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: humor writing books irony numbers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. —Jules Renard More about this quote Tags: writing money Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: writing art live Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. —Lynn Johnston More about this quote Tags: writing diet encouragement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always wrote with the idea that what I put out there is going to stay there. Once I publish something, it has been published. I've never deleted more than one or two posts from my site. I don't think that there are takebacks. I don't feel right about it. —Alison Headley More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded. —Ann Radcliffe More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. —Bobby Knight More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. —Carol Burnett More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. —Colleen Wainwright More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email