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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • 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.

  • I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

  • I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

  • 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.

  • What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

  • If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.

  • The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

  • I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

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