Quotes on Writing

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“There are three rules for the writing of a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.”
~Somerset Maugham

“Be obscure clearly.”
~E.B. White

“There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.”
~Jim Thompson