On Writing

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” 

― John Steinbeck

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” 

― Anthony Trollope

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” 

― Thomas Jefferson

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” 

― G.K. Chesterton

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.” 

― Christopher Hitchens

“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.” 

― Oscar Wilde

“I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."

― D.H. Lawrence

“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.” 

― Mark Twain

“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.” 

― P.G. Wodehouse