#writers

The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before bed admired then forgotten. ↗

— Roman Payne

#authors #brides #desire #funny #humor

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#publishers #rush #translators #tread #where

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#arrogant #creatures #early #god-like #i

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#career #groups #i #i think #pompous

I want to see an elephant hunt down a man for the sole purpose of collecting his teeth, while a chorus of typewriters sings songs that praises the bananas for their wisdom, leadership, and their high levels of potassium. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #dada #funny #humor #hunt

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#brigade #citizens #city #comedians #entering

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#article #because #context #else #furious

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#into #like #teeth #writers

Writers speak stench. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#stench #writers