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Now we know why some writers drink!

December 23, 2023May 9, 2025 446

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Michael Burke

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

Tom Clancy

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Dan Poynter

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

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

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.