Jean Malaquais 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.

  • My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

  • In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

  • Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

  • I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

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