John Mortimer Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

  John Mortimer

  Writing, Found, Bores

• It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

  John Mortimer

  Writing, Important, Remember

• Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

  John Mortimer

  Running, Children, Party

• The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

  John Mortimer

  Writing, Yogurt, Milk

  "Accidental barrister who wielded his wit to share life's big joke" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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