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You can always tell the quality of an author by their cover picture. Bad writers bear an idiotic smile on the inside flap. Great writers take up the entire back cover looking slightly mad, sad, or bored. The very best writers, though, had the superior ability to die before photography was invented. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #writing #funny

Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly. ↗

— C. Kennedy

#writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-humor #writing-philosophy #writing-process

Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#crime-fiction #drama #e-l-james #fifty-shades #fifty-shades-of-grey

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#pain #poetry #poetry-quotes #sadness #suffering

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#science-fiction #writing #freedom

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#writers-on-writing

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. ↗

— Stephen King

#writers-on-writing

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#warren-ellis #writing #writers-on-writing

I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time to time, and speak, when invited to writers' circles and at summer schools, and I'm continually amazed at the number of would-be writers who scarcely read. For ideas to germinate and proliferate there has to be fertile ground to sow them in, and for the ground to be fertile it must be mulched with observation, imagination, and other writing. ↗

— Sarah Harrison

#imagination

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician. ↗

— Eugène Ionesco

#writer #humor