Funny Quotes about Writers - Page 2

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
        —Robert Benchley (Robert Benchley by Nathaniel Benchley, 1955)

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
        —William Faulkner

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
        —William Faulkner

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
        —Peter De Vries

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
        —Mel Brooks (on writing his Memoirs)

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
        —Josh Billings

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
        —William Faulkner

[I work until] beer o'clock.
        —Stephen King On his 9 to 5 writing day, Time - 6 Oct 86

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