Funny Quotes about Writers

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
        —Steve Martin (at the 2003 Oscars)

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
        —Somerset Maugham

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
        —Somerset Maugham

The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
        —John Steinbeck

The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
        —Robert Benchley

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
        —Tom Clancy

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
        —Marshall McLuhan

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
        —Stephen King

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
        —Samuel Johnson

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