“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Anton Chekhov
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Ben Franklin
“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.”
Burton Rascoe
“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.”
Elmore Leonard
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
Isaac Asimov
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London
“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing…I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”
Lord Byron
“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
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
Richard Bach
“The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”
Robert Benchley
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
Robert Benchley
