Writing for the hell of it.
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” – George Orwell
“I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.” —Roald Dahl
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” – Ernest Hemingway
“It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.”
– C. J. Cherryh