Kit Reed famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

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

  • 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.

  • It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  • The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

  • 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,

  • When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.