Quotes about writing...

I was surfing the (spider) web when I came across this. Pretty cool, and I will make it a regular thing. Here are some quotes about writing, starting with the letter A...

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

- Douglas Adams

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

- Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

- Brian Aldiss

The story...must be a conflict, and specifically, a conflict between the forces of good and evil within a single person.

- Maxwell Anderson

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

- Sherwood Anderson

You know how it is in the kid's book world; it's just bunny eat bunny.

- Anonymous

Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse....All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

- Aristotle

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

- Matthew Arnold

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

- Isaac Asimov

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

- Isaac Asimov

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil - but there is no way around them.

- Isaac Asimov

To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it.

- Louis Auchincloss