When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from
the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle
stealing, or screwworm management.
-- Edward Abbey
the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle
stealing, or screwworm management.
-- Edward Abbey
Related:
- When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second
best.
Edward... - Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for
talking about words,
we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words... - Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea;
but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives... - The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
Edward... - It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory
should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i... - Books are like eggs--best when fresh.
--
Edward... - Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.
Edward... - All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer.
It's an aphrodisiac... - He who has no mind to trade with the devil,
should be so wise as to keep from his shop. --...
From the same category:
- Reminds me of some game I used to
play . . ... - BeerGut:
if you had equipment like mine you'd build a shelter... - Only new categories escape the stereotyped thinking
associated with old abstractions.
McClellan's Law of... - Gravity: it's not just a great idea...
it's the law... - Always cut the
cards...
