Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Random inspiration VIII

Today's entry includes quotes on writing:

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

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

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. ~Russell Baker

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~E. L. Doctorow

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either. ~Robert Graves

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. ~Mary Heaton Vorse

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