Writing/Reading

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

-- Kingsley Amis

The covers of this book are too far apart.

-- Ambrose Bierce

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.

-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii

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

-- G. K. Chesterton

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

-- G. K. Chesterton

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

-- Tom Clancy

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

-- John Donne

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

-- T. S. Eliot

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

-- English Professor, Ohio University

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