Morley Callaghan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

  • A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

  • One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

  • When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait

  • A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,