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writing

Robert Frost
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Saul Bellow
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Stephen King
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
T.S. Eliot
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Theodore Roosevelt
There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
Tom Clancy
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
W. Somerset Maugham
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.