Humorous quotes – Writers and critics

"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything" – Ivana Trump

"The most important thing for poets to do is write as little as possible"- T S Eliot

"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime." – Phyllis McGinley

"My reputation grows with every failure." – George Bernard Shaw

"The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense." – Tom Clancy

"The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns!" – Herman Wouk

"Once you’ve put one of his books down, you simply can’t pick it up again." – Mark Twain on Henry James

"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?" – Gore Vidal

"Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts." – Jeffrey Robinson

"They told me that Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right"- Winston Churchill

"The covers of this book are too far apart!" – Ambrose Pierce

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." – Dorothy Parker

"It took me 15 years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous." – Robert Benchley