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There's Not Much To Be Said About The Period Except That Most Writers Don't Reach It Soon Enough.
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There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers
don't reach it soon enough.
-- William Zinsser
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Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act iii, Sc.
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The most senseless and fit man. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act iii, Sc.
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What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope big enough for the manuscript to come back in.
This is too much of a temptation to the editor. -- Ring Lardne...
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-adressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in.
This is too much of a temptation for the editor. -- Ring Lardner, How to Write Short Storie...
Infancy, n.: The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, Heaven lies about us.
The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. -- Ambrose Bierce...