SSP
“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write my books so when the reader gets to the end of a chapter, he or she must turn one more page. When people tell me I’ve kept them up all night, I feel like I’ve succeeded!”
- Sidney Sheldon
“You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.”
- Larry Niven
“Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.”
- Richard Curtis
“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.”
- Cormac McCarthy
“If you’re a singer, you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”
- Mickey Spillane
“Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you — as if you haven’t been told a million times already — that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.”
- Harlan Ellison
“Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.”
- Tom Clancy
“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”
- Brian Aldiss
“My goal in life is to be the exact same person to you, whether you’ve met me for the first time or the 21st time. Your knowledge of me is there from the beginning in an honest, brutal sort of way. Get your writings to be there…in an honest, brutal sort of way, and you’ll have found your true voice.”
- Joyce Jace
February 13th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Hi, Jaime! I noticed you stopped in on our writers workshop site so I thought I’d take a visit. I liked your quotes in this post especially Sidney Sheldon’s. Nice site. I’ll be back. I want to find out more about what you write.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Hello and welcome, Gale! I’m glad you like the quites, and I’m glad you stopped by.