Humor Quote by Dorothy Parker

“Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.”

— Victoria Janssen

“She could get published in a sound journal that meant business and didn’t publish fly-by-nights. She was twenty-eight. It was time for her to…

— Eve Babitz

“The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.”

— John Hughes

“I suggested to her that she start writing. "I can't write at all," she said. "Neither can many bestsellers," I replied. "But that pesky…

— Jarod Kintz

“wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards.”

— Ayn Rand

“She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so has no…

— Jennifer duBois

“Still, to be urged to write and to be urged to publish are two different things and nobody so far was urging her to…

— Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

“I will piss on deadlines. I will forget I am married. I will do nothing but read, read, read when it’s a Book Affair.”

— Lainey

“If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of…

— Terena Scott

“Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she quite often…

— Winston Graham

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off…

— Jonathan Coe