“I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.”
“Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight; I'm happy to be the exception.”
“You deserved to get run over. And besides, I barely tapped you. The only reason you broke your leg was because you panicked and tripped over your own feet.”
“She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous. ”
“The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but the first-rate writer can only be experience. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.”
“For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous.In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to writereally, really shitty first drafts.”