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Now we know why some writers drink!

December 23, 2023December 23, 2023 193

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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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

William Shawn

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

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

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Stephen Wright

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

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

Tom Clancy

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.