The Washington Post’s neologism contest winners.

02 Dec, 2019

I came across this today and broke up laughing. These are seriously clever! Thanks to the Washington Post. I wasn't aware of their neologism contest, but I am now! Read and enjoy. Pass it along.

The Washington Post’s neologism contest winners.

December 2, 2019May 9, 2025

I came across this today and broke up laughing. These are seriously clever! Thanks to the Washington Post. I wasn’t aware of Read More...

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.