my favourite...quotes about writing :: some cheeky ones

'I get a lot of letters from people.  They say "I want to be a writer.  What should I do?"  I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.' 

Ruth Rendell

I like to write when I feel spiteful: it's like having a good sneeze.

D.H.Lawrence

Many (modern novels) have a beginning, a muddle and an end.'
Philip Larkin

‘There are three rules for writing a novel.  Unfortunately no-one knows what they are.’

Somerset Maugham

'A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped self-addressed envelope, big enough to send the manuscript back in.  This is too much of a temptation for the editor.'

Ring Lardner

 

'Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.'

Groucho Marx