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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.
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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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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Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
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Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
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Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.
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The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.
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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
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I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only….Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,
