The Twelve Smartest Things Ever Said About Writing

The Twelve Smartest Things Ever Said About Writing


The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.
_____Gloria Steinem

I am going to write because I cannot help it.
______Charlotte Bronte


Publishing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But writing is.
_____Anne Lamott

Pleasure is not always at the time.
______James Salter

The only advice I have to give a young novelist is to fuck a really good agent.
_______John Cheever.

Nothing is as important as a likeable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.
_____Ethan Canin

The protagonist cannot be a perfect person. If he were, he could not improve and he must come out at the end of the play a more admirable human being than he went in.
____Maxwell Anderson

You must be aware that the reader is at least as bright as you are.
_____William Maxwell


The story is always about the person who is telling it.
_____Jack Heffron


The subconscious mind seeks truth. It wants truth so badly that it will cease to speak to anyone who wants something else more than he wants truth.
___Anne Sexton


The work will show you how to do it.
____T-shirt


Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody’s fault. You chose it.

____Bill Barich