Dan Beachy-Quick 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.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

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