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Nothing Stinks Like a Pile of Unpublished Writing - Quotes about the Writing Life
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.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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Comment by James Waters AKA. NineSpeed on July 14, 2008 at 5:23am - lol very true, great job
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