#writing

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. ↗

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what? ↗

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#around #belly #books #copy #done

1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor. 3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake. 4. Pick one — fame or delight. 5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket. 6. Cunning and excess are your friends. 7. TV and liquor are your enemies. 8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m. 9. You’re done when the crows sing. ↗

— Ron Dakron

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I found the writing arena to be much less competitive. ↗

— Phil Hartman

#competitive #found #i #less #much

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#attractive #autobiography #dead #most #things

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? ↗

— Anne Tyler

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Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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