Subject: Communication » Reading/Writing (Page 9)

I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Write drunk; edit sober.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

I realized I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

If the doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.

(1920 – 1992) American science and science fiction author & professor

We get it, poets: Things are like other things.


Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons!

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

(1895 – 1985) British author & classical scholar

Writer, William Faulkner about Ernest Hemingway: He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Hemingway: Poor Faulkner, Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

(1899 – 1961) author & journalist

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003… President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

(1963 – ) television host & comedian

A biography is a book that is usually written about a dead person because it is so unlike him when he was alive.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Remember… write to your congressman; even if he can’t read… write to him.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

(1918 - 2002) American author

Rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, in order to provide articles for people who can’t read.

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

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

(1934 – 1982) English writer, comedian & actor

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

(1933 – ) American telejournalist

If you miss one issue of any magazine, it will be the issue that contains the article, story or installment you were most anxious to read.