Humour Quote by A.J. Dalton

“It's a fiendishly difficult thing to do because paper that has been written on doesn't burn easily.”

— Mikhael Bulgakov

“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.”

— Gillian Marchenko

“Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.”

— Kia Carrington-Russell

“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”

— Patricia Highsmith

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

— Jon Spaihts

“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

— Gene Fowler

“Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never…

— Euginia Herlihy

“And so, with a torn sleeve and a keyboard on which cigarette ash can rest, writers ended up arsonists of recycled material with a…

— Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis

“Writing is a method for storing information through material signs.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.”

— Kellie Elmore

Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on something. I…

— Laura van den Berg

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness…

— Blaise Cendrars