“And a writer observed, "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity," and I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.”
Quoting Westbrook Pegler
2008, 2008 Republican National Convention
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“A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.”
Strip from November 18, 2006
Bucky Katt
Hemingway's famous iceberg theory of writing.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
On his wanting to become a writer at an early age in " From Poverty to Power: The Inspiring Story of Tomas Rivera http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/academic/article/778847/From-Poverty-to-Power-The-Inspiring-Story-of-Tomas-Rivera" (TeenInk)
“writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”
“He was known to some people as a writer.”
Obituary written for himself as one "that would be satisfactory to me in the event of an undesired, but possible, exit" in October 1933, as quoted in "Featherisms" by Ted Landphair at VOA News (6 October 2008) http://blogs.voanews.com/tedlandphairsamerica/2008/10/06/featherisms/
Context: He was known to some people as a writer. In his writings he espoused thrift, industry, promptness, perseverance, and dependability. … As far as was possible, the subject of this sketch practiced what he preached. Some of his enemies point to this trait as his foremost weakness.
“Good writers indulge their audience; great writers know better.”
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)