Subject: Communication » Reading/Writing (Page 16)

Ransom notes.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

(1892 – 1983) British author, journalist, literary critic & travel writer

A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

Our customer's paperwork is profit. Our own paperwork is loss.

I’m writing my book in fifth person, so every sentence starts out with: “I heard from this guy who told somebody …”

(1973 – ) American comedian

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

(1948 – ) English novelist

Composers shouldn't think too much—it interferes with their plagiarism.

(1896 – 1983) American actor

I’ve never read an article of clothing.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

(1955 – ) actor & comedian

Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.

baseball player

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

Anything in parentheses can be ignored.

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good – we want it Tuesday.

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

It’s a very good historical book about history.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

If at first you don’t succeed, read the manual.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer