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