Funny writers quotes

Funny quotes

Writers

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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I'm astounded by people who take 18 years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write 'Madame Bovary,' and was that ever on the best-seller list?
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
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“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
– Samuel Johnson 

“I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”
– Carl Sandburg 

 “From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.”
– Winston Churchill

 “The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.”
– Francois Rene de Chateaubriand

“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.”
– Robert Graves

 “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
– T. S. Eliot