A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.
– Baltasar Gracián
It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.
– C.J. Cherryh
It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.
– Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
– Douglas Adams
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
– Elmore Leonard
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
– Gene Fowler
I’m not a very good writer… but I’m an excellent rewriter.
– James Michener
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
– Robert Benchley
The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time… unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
– Robert Cormier
No author dislikes to be edited a much as he dislikes not to be published.
– Russell Lynes
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
– Stephen King
Other than the physical act of putting pen to paper, I can’t think of another more important job duty of the writer than to stare wistfully out a window.
– Terri Guillemets
Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.
– Terri Guillemets
