James Norman Hall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
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,
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.
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.
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.
I was very productive as a senator for my state.
The only way to be productive is to be positive.

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