Humorous Quotations about Writing - Who said it?

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâte.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

(On novels) A beginning, a muddle and an end.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

My favourite poem is the one that starts "Thirty days hath September" because it actually tells you something.