Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

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Until the lion learns how to write every story will glorify the hunter.

Cursive Script tattoo by Clinton Osborne at Eternal Tattoo, Shepparton, Australia.

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Writing about vampires doesn’t make me a bloodsucker; writing about homicidal maniacs doesn’t mean I’m a maniacal murderer myself. Intellectual curiosity is a far cry from obsession.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

It is a most remarkable thing. I sat down with the full intention of writing something clever and original; but for the life of me I can’t think of anything clever and original–at least, not at this moment.

Source: Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886), On Being Hard Up.

Maybe that’s just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it’s enough to tell a few jokes.

Source: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010