#writ

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #humour #work #writing #humor

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ↗

— Mark Twain

#writing #humor

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#talking #writers #humor

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#writing #humor

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. ↗

— Thomas McGuane

#literature #writing #writing-life #death

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#hope #today #tomorrow #writing

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#books #guess #i #living #make

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? ↗

— Robert Adamson

#best #certainly #confused #days #encouraging

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#certainly #early #had #i #most