writing

i went looking for some quotes on writing for class
...this one in particular:

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

[which I always thought was said by Hemingway, but apparently erroneously. it's Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith, a famous sportswriter.]


and came across a few that i wanted to share
(some which i might not share with my eighth graders)

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -Mark Twain

Easy reading is damn hard writing. -Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. -Uniek Swain

I do not like to write - I like to have written. -Gloria Steinem
[substitute the word: run]

I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal