Susan Nicol > Susan's Quotes

“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. (RUDYARD KIPLING)”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter