Subject: Communication » Reading/Writing (Page 11)

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.


I think TV is very educational; every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

(1910 – 1991) American art historian, photographer, author & editor

Just read a book about Stockholm Syndrome; it started off badly, but by the end I really liked it.

(1927 – 2018) British comedian, singer & songwriter

We have the power to bore people long after we are dead.

(1885 – 1951) American novelist, short-story writer & playwright

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

(1947 – ) novelist, screenwriter

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

(1707 – 1754) English dramatist & novelist

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

(1802 – 1870) American writer & editor

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

(1919 – 2010 ) England author

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist

It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

(1880 – 1957) Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist & essayist

Even those who call Mr. Faulkner our greatest literary sadist do not fully appreciate him, for it is not merely his characters who have to run the gauntlet but also his readers.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) biographer & poet

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

(1914 – 1953) Welsh-born poet & writer

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.

… when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humor, the writing is on the wall.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

I love being a writer; what I can't stand is the paperwork.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist