On Writing Quotes

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

Ernest Hemingway

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

Stephen King

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

Mark Twain

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

Bertrand Russell

I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was tempted to write porn, imaginary parents would appear over my shoulder and read what I was writing; just about the point that I managed to banish the imaginary parents, real children would lean over my shoulder and read what I was writing.

Neil Gaiman

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Stephen King

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

Stephen King

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Albert Camus

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

Ernest Hemingway

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Stephen King