Blood flow Quote by Lilian Jackson Braun

“Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits,…

— Peter Selgin

“Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they…

— Robert Black

“Never ask a writer what they are writing while they are writing, unless you’re prepared for sharp teeth, fangs and blood on your lap.”

— Melody Lee

“Drafts would be written out in his hunched cursive, the words growing fatter as his pencil dulled against the page.”

— Brian Jay Jones

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

“Writers' trousers are famously unpredictable in many ways, but I haven't met another author whose trousers simply disintegrated en route to a reading. There…

— A.L. Kennedy

“Writers never retire; they just keep sharpening their pencils!”

— Diana Savastano

“I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains.”

— Bauvard

“Writing, someone said, is turning blood into ink.”

— George Sheehan

“And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean…

— Toni Sorenson

“They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they…

— Tom Rachman