Hisaye Yamamoto famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

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