I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Quote by Beryl Pfizer

Topics: Writing Quotes

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon....

Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon....

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not...

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not...

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only...

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only...

I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began...

I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began...

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought...

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,...

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a...

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a...

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of...

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of...

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.