“As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.”
Jonathan Coe
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
Isaac Asimov
“If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“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