Nothing Stinks Like a Pile of Unpublished Writing - Quotes about the Writing Life

[Ernie Zelinski]

These are some inspirational quotes about the writing life that I am adding to my websites:

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
— Sylvia Plath

Nice guys can't write.
— Knox Burger (Literary Agent)

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
— H. L. Mencken

Writing is a profession in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
— Jules Renard

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
— Leo Tolstoy

I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
— Jean-Jacques Rosseau


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[James Waters AKA. NineSpeed]

lol very true, great job