Esko Valtaoja 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.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
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.

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