Now we know why some writers drink!

23 Dec, 2023

There is a stereotype out there about writers. They're talented and frustrated and hit the bottle way too often. Maybe the reason some talented writers are frustrated and drink to excess is because of what they're asked to write. Example:

Why Writers Drink

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Now we know why some writers drink!

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The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.