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:

Why Writers Drink

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Now we know why some writers drink!

December 23, 2023June 4, 2026

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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

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Stephen Wright

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

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

Michael Burke

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Thomas Wolfe

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

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

Lawrence Wray

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

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

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Oscar Wilde

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.