writer quotes

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


I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner


I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
Steve Martin


I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
Mel Brooks


It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley


A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner


The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley