“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)
“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world — they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.”
C. N. Bovee (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)
“PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.”
Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary” (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)
“Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. They’re going someplace.”
John Irving (via sarahangelwrites)
“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.”
Rod Serling (via sarahangelwrites)
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