Agree or Disagree?

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
William Faulkner

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn’t change one word. The word they didn’t change was on page 87.
Steve Martin

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I’m one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
Mel Brooks

It took me fifteen 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

Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”
Yogi Berra

Do these famous people speak the truth about writing? Do you see yourself in any of thse quotes? I look forward to reading your responses.

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