Erma Bombeck Quotes

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

To make anything successful, you need a good writer.

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

I took a lot of writing courses.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.

Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Headline writing is an art form.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.