Some of my Favorite Quotes on Writers and Writing Writing is like cooking...if you spill something, you should make it look like part of the act. ~ John Keeble Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~ Cyril Connolly Half my life is an act of revision. ~ John Irving There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. ~ W. Somerset Maugham Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. ~ Richard McKenna There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ~ Marcel Proust There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else. ~ Gloria Steinem If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. ~ Isaac Asimov The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ~ Tom Clancy A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. ~ Richard Bach

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