These are some quotes about the writing life that I am adding to my websites (inspirational quotes and retirement jobs.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

— Sylvia Plath

Nice guys can't write.

— Knox Burger (Literary Agent)

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

— H. L. Mencken

Writing is a profession in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

— Jules Renard

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

— Leo Tolstoy

I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

— Jean-Jacques Rosseau