Writing Humor Quotes

“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald

“...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write...

...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone... and not even know that he's doing it. As writers' wives and husbands often learn to their horror...

...there is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. In a household with more than one person, of which one is a writer, the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private, and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Because, if you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. Or he may not hear you at all... and, if you shake him at this stage, he bites...”
― Robert Heinlen

“it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it”
― Alfred Lansing

“I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.”
― Clarence Budington Kelland

“Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.”
― C. Kennedy

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.”
― Peggy Ullman Bell

“I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable”
― Alfred Lansing

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.”
― Peggy Ullman Bell

“Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present your baby to society and provide her with dowry, and in your heart, you hope that some royalty spends a night with her and ensures her way to success.”
― Elvira Baryakina

“Memory is a rascal.”
― John Dufresne