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A good horse is much more important. -- Max Brand. Poets are born, not paid. Ogden Nash One of the signs of Napoleon's greatness is the fact that he once had a publisher shot. Siegfried Unself. I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. George Bernard Shaw. I did not begin to write novels until I had forgotten all I had learned at school and college. John Galsworthy There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it. Word has somehow got around that the split infinitive is always wrong. That is a piece with the outworn notion that it is always wrong to strike a lady. James Thurber A professional author is an amateur who didn't quit. Richard Bach |
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their bellies. Benjamin Franklin It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Benchley If I want to read a good book, I write one. Benjamin Disraeli How can you write if you can't cry? Ring Lardner I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. Patrick Henry. You must not suppose because I am a man of letters that I never tried to earn an honest living. George Bernard Shaw I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. Steve Martin Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. Lionel Trilling I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you." Saul Bellow My writing does not fit into any of the convenient little pigeon holes. James J. Harrington III |
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can't stand is the paperwork. Peter De Vries Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. Agatha Christie It's a damn good story. If you have any comments write them on the back of a check. Erle Stanley Gardner They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. Robert A. Heinlein When you catch an adjective, kill it. -- Mark Twain *** I will hunt you down and shoot your dog if you mess with my copyright! Vince Runza *** |
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Blaise Pascal No one ever wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it. Ring Lardner I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. Peter De Vries I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers I'd be a politician. Eugene Ionesco Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money Jules Renard A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. Barbara Cartland People do not deserve to have good writers, they are so pleased with bad. Ralph Waldo Emerson Most men would rather be damned with false praise than saved with honest criticism. Sterling W. Sill I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. Mark Twain. To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. Schopenhauer. History has lots of heroes; all of them are dead. Terry C. Johnston Crime does not pay. Convicted felons in 46 states cannot get into our crowded jails to serve time with their friends. Anon "Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare." Harriet Martineau "Pride is a Fool's Fortress" Leon Uris. "Fatigue makes cowards of us all." Vince Lombardi. An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley A writer can deliberate for HOURS over a word he could never spit out in everyday speech. Kurt Vonnegut. Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Orson Welles If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." -- Albert Einstein. I used to think that writers starved and froze because they couldn't afford fire wood. Then a writer friend confided to me that he didn't know what he would do if it ever got colder outside the house than it was inside. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away -- Arthur Helps Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. -- Gordon R. Dickson Newspaper editors can pass off a remark like: "It has been rumored by some people that read this paper --" and expect to be praised. Anon. The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. William Butler Yeats Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandberg Many of my best clients come from my worst critics. The last thing my Old Joe warns the clients leaving his office to see me is that my advice is so shop-worn it hasn't changed in ten years. The first thing I ask when they arrive is if Old Joe is still stumbling around at the bottom of the hill trying to decide which direction is UP this week. *** Mr. (Daniel) Webster has as high a standard of truth as any statesman I have met in debate. Convince him, and he cannot reply; he is silenced; he cannot look truth in the face and oppose it by argument. I think that it can be readily perceived by his manner when he felt the unanswerable force of a reply.' John C. Calhoun *** In studying what I have written it is obvious that my best works came forth when I was hurting the most. It is enough to make me wonder how far I would have gone if that anvil had not missed my toe. Lin Stone. *** Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one they sprung up. Oliver Wendell Holmes *** Illegitimi Non Carborundum |
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