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Now we know why some writers drink!

December 23, 2023December 23, 2023 288

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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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

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

Lisa See

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

Michael Burke

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Edward Albee

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

Stephen King

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

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

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.