Carlos J. Cortes famous quotes

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.
-- Carlos J. Cortes

#Writing

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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.

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.

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 anyone who can write faster,

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.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

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.