Brendan Behan on the Writing Life

“I am a drinker with writing problems.”

~ Brendan Behan

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Ernest Hemingway on Writing

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

~ Ernest Hemingway

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Mark Twain on Unnecessary Words

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

~ Mark Twain

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George Orwell on Political Speech and Writing

“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”

~ George Orwell

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Will Rogers on Reading One’s Own Writing

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

~ Will Rogers

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Douglas Adams on Deadlines

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

~ Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

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Ernest Hemingway on Easy Writing

Easy writing makes hard reading.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Stephen Wright on Getting Started

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.
~ Stephen Wright
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