Jerome Weidman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  • This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  • 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.

  • I act with my gut instincts.

  • When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

  • Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

  • Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

  • Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.