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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
— Leon Uris
Writing poetry is a pleasure, ... a pleasure out of hell
— Kenneth Slessor
Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
— Jessamyn West
It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.
— Liza Dalby
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.
— Tracy Letts
I knew exactly how I felt about Madoc. And I knew why I felt that way. I hated him. I hated what he did to me. But why in the hell did he hate me?
— Penelope Douglas
- Have you ever written the ending of the story first and then the rest of it?
- Hell no, I've never had an orgasm before having sex. — Enkelejd Lamaj
- Hell no, I've never had an orgasm before having sex. — Enkelejd Lamaj
Writing is easy, its marketing that is truly hell!
— L.A. Jones
But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?
— Anne Lamott
You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?
— Jenkin Lloyd Jones
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world
they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one. — C.N. Bovee
they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one. — C.N. Bovee
Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.
— Kevin James Breaux
The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.
— Alan Menken
70 percent of what we do involves staring into space trying to figure out what the hell happens next.
— Robert Gregory Browne
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
— Bill Hybels
Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.
— Sallie Tisdale
The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What poet would not grieve to see
His brother write as well as he?
But rather than they should excel,
He'd wish his rivals all in Hell. — Jonathan Swift
His brother write as well as he?
But rather than they should excel,
He'd wish his rivals all in Hell. — Jonathan Swift
Writing is like having sex. The people who never shut up about doing it are usually the ones who don't know what the hell they're doing.
— Greg Sisco
If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?
— Haruki Murakami
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
— Neil Gaiman
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
— Stephen King
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.
— Richard Hell
Let's face it, writing is hell.
— William Styron
[Writing about her address to a ladies club]: The heart of my message to them was that they would all fry in Hell if they didn't quit reading trash.
— Flannery O'Connor
Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.
— Julia Cameron
If Satan gave you instructions for writing the book report from Hell, it would closely resemble those of a Ph.D. dissertation.
— Tiffany Reisz
I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick
or a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea. — Charles Bukowski
or a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea. — Charles Bukowski
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
— William H Gass
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
— Robert Hass