Darrell Schweitzer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you don't know it, don't write it.
-- Darrell Schweitzer

#Writing

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

Darrell Schweitzer famous quotes

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