Don Murray famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.
-- Don Murray

#Writing #Two #Twenties
People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.
-- Don Murray

#Sports #Kids #Rocks
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.
-- Don Murray

#Writing #Ignorance #Essentials
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.
-- Don Murray

#Writing #Knowing #Challenges
Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.
-- Don Murray

#Pigs #Sausage #Process

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.
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 anyone who can write faster,
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Don Murray famous quotes

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