#tin

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#poetry #writing #humor

Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#charles-cornick #humor #hunting-ground #public-speaking #humor

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#writing #humor

...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb. ↗

— Mignon Fogarty

#numbers #passive-voice #writing #humor

That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#humor #romantic #humor

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#love-story #romance #shakespeare #writing #humor

I’ll not only win glory in a castrated bullfighting tournament, I can make a profit by selling rocky mountain oysters, too. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #humor #funny

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv. ↗

— Esther M. Friesner

#humor #reality-tv #writing #humor

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader. ↗

— Jerry Scott

#language #latin #zits #humor

Writing is my life. Life is my hobby. ↗

— Emma Lai

#writing-life #humor