FUNNY QUOTES BY FAMOUS WRITERS

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” – Douglas Adams

“The first draft of anything is shit.” – Ernest Hemingway

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” – Stephen King

“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” – Flannery O’Connor

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde

“I can resist anything, except temptation.” – Mark Twain

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde

“A world without your stories would be like a prison to me.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.” – Stephen King

“Writing is easy. You just sit at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” – Mark Twain

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER SIMILAR QUOTES

“The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.” – Aldous Huxley

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama (not a writer, but still funny)

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker (also not a writer, but still funny)

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.” – Toni Morrison

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” – Robert Benchley

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” – Anaïs Nin

“The road to writing hell is paved with good intentions.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King

“I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.” – James Michener

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” – Anne Frank