Now we know why some writers drink!

23 Dec, 2023

There is a stereotype out there about writers. They're talented and frustrated and hit the bottle way too often. Maybe the reason some talented writers are frustrated and drink to excess is because of what they're asked to write. Example:

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Now we know why some writers drink!

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There is a stereotype out there about writers. They’re talented and frustrated and hit the bottle way too often. Maybe the reason Read More...

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

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

Raymond Chandler

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

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

Steven Bochco

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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