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Started 6 months ago by DustyBinLaden
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DustyBinLaden

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I like a quote, me. Especially about writing. My favourite (and I don't know who said it) is:

'The reason writers never look out of the window in the morning is that they'd have nothing to do in the afternoon.'

Any other pearlers out there?

Posted 6 months ago #
Lucy4

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Private Eye cartoon of some years ago:

Two blokes at a party-

1st "I'm writing a book."

2nd "Yes, neither am I."

Posted 6 months ago #
Nails UK

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My personal favourite is attributed to Oscar Wilde.

When asked how his new play was coming along, he replied: "Yesterday, I wrote two words. Today, I crossed them out."

Posted 6 months ago #
The All New Jeni B

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Douglas Adams - "I love deadlines. I love the 'whooshing' sound they make as they fly past."

Posted 6 months ago #
Midfield Diamond

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Virginia Woolf - “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

Posted 6 months ago #
waylandsmithy

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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work. Mark Twain.

That's particularly true if you're a technical author. Every bastard has a pearl of fucking wisdom. Cunts.

Posted 6 months ago #
rikkor

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I like them all. I don't think anyone would be desperate enough to pay V. Woolf for sex, though.

Posted 6 months ago #
Ironduke

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Smithy, I think that reads better as 'Every fucker has a pearl of bastard wisdom'

Posted 6 months ago #
sigmund

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We read to know we are not alone - C.S. Lewis.
We write because we are - me.

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