Writing Quotes

I wasn’t even warmed up yet after three years. It took decades to rack up all my rejection letters. Right now I’m giving away a free short story collection that it took me 30 years to compile. You can throw it out in mere minutes.

But I digress.

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
–Flannery O’Connor

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
–Howard Aiken

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
–Adlai Stevenson

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
–T.S. Eliot

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
–Elmore Leonard

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
–Frank Lloyd Wright

I can’t understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
–Fred Allen

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else; we can bore people long after we are dead.
–Sinclair Lewis

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