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Lighten up Mondays

Posted on December 18, 2017 Updated on December 17, 2017

Just had to provide humor for those who are writers, and those who want to be writers.

• From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.– Winston Churchill
• I wrote a few children’s books. Not on purpose. – Steven Wright
• I get a lot of letters from people. They say: “I want to be a writer. What should I do?” I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it. – Ruth Rendell
• If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers. – Irvin S. Cobb
• If Moses were alive today he’d come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and spend the next five years trying to get them published.– Anonymous
• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.– Stephen King
• If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. – Doug Larson
• Learn to write. Never mind the damn statistics. If you like statistics, become a CPA.– Jim Murray
• The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere. – S.J. Perelman
• An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.– Franklin P. Jones
• Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.– Christopher Hampton
• 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
• How many writers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
  Six:
  One to screw it in,
  One to sharpen all the pencils in the house,
  One to make more coffee,
  One to call a friend to chat,
  And one to complain that there’s never time to do any writing.
  Wait, that’s only five — that’s why they need editors.