The Sarcasm Handbook by Lawrence Dorfman

The Sarcasm Handbook by Lawrence Dorfman

Author:Lawrence Dorfman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2017-03-14T16:00:00+00:00


Sarcastic Quotes about Literature and Writing

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”

—WILLIAM FAULKNER (ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY)

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“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

—ERNEST HEMINGWAY (ABOUT WILLIAM FAULKNER)

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“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.”

—RUSSELL BAKER

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“I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.”

—MARK TWAIN

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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

—DOUGLAS ADAMS

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“My Personality is 85 percent the last book I read.”

—UNKNOWN

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“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

—ROBERT BENCHLEY

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“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”

—GOETHE

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“He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.”

—MILTON BERLE

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“Sarcasm is lost in print.”

—JON CRYER

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“Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.”

—ANTHONY BURGESS

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“To write is human, to edit is divine.”

—STEPHEN KING

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“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.”

—EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

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“How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity, that his intentions were good.”

—MARK TWAIN

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“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the backyard and shot it.”

—TRUMAN CAPOTE

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

—ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

—WILLA CATHER

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“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”

—SYLVIA PLATH

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“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman’s name out of a satire then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer—and if so, why?”

—BENNETT CERF

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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”

—WOODY ALLEN

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“It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.”

—C. J. CHERRYH

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“When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn’t writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.”

—KEN KESEY

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“Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.”

—RICHARD CURTIS

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“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

—NEIL GAIMAN

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“Never throw up on an editor.”

—ELLEN DATLOW

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“We write frankly and fearlessly but then we ‘modify’ before we print.”

—MARK TWAIN

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“I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.”

—PETER DE VRIES

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“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.



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