“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain (via sarahangelwrites)
“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
Truman Capote (via sarahangelwrites)
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
Robert Benchley (via sarahangelwrites)
“Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs—no regular hours, so many temptations!”
Elizabeth Bishop (via sarahangelwrites)
“Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.”
Thomas Berger (via sarahangelwrites)
“You don’t write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via sarahangelwrites)
“A story consists of someone wanting something and having trouble getting it.”
Douglas Glover “The Enamoured Knight” (via sarahangelwrites)
“Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself—it is the occurring which is difficult.”
Stephen Leacock (via sarahangelwrites)
“An author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
Colette (via sarahangelwrites)
“I’d rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.”
Jack Smith (via sarahangelwrites)
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