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I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

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Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#humor #lying #on-fiction #writing #humor

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #on-writing #wit #writing #humor

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#gender #humor #masculinity #romance #romance-novels

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#wit #writing #humor

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#inspirational #writing #humor

I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#romance #writing-books #humor

I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will give me enough money not only to live a comfortable existence, but also to buy many, many new pairs of shoes. ↗

— Jen Lancaster

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