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
âHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.â
âWILLIAM FAULKNER (ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY)
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âPoor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?â
âERNEST HEMINGWAY (ABOUT WILLIAM FAULKNER)
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âThe 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 didnât require any.â
âRUSSELL BAKER
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âI hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.â
âMARK TWAIN
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âI love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.â
âDOUGLAS ADAMS
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âMy Personality is 85 percent the last book I read.â
âUNKNOWN
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âIt took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldnât give it up because by that time I was too famous.â
âROBERT BENCHLEY
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âWhen ideas fail, words come in very handy.â
âGOETHE
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âHe was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.â
âMILTON BERLE
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âSarcasm is lost in print.â
âJON CRYER
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âLiterature is all, or mostly, about sex.â
âANTHONY BURGESS
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âTo write is human, to edit is divine.â
âSTEPHEN KING
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âIf you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.â
âEDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
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âHow 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.â
âMARK TWAIN
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âFinishing a book is just like you took a child out in the backyard and shot it.â
âTRUMAN CAPOTE
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âThere is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.â
âERNEST HEMINGWAY
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âMost of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.â
âWILLA CATHER
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âNothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.â
âSYLVIA PLATH
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âColeridge 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 womanâs 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 writerâand if so, why?â
âBENNETT CERF
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âI took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.â
âWOODY ALLEN
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âIt is perfectly okay to write garbageâas long as you edit brilliantly.â
âC. J. CHERRYH
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âWhen Shakespeare was writing, he wasnât writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.â
âKEN KESEY
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âMost writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.â
âRICHARD CURTIS
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âTomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.â
âNEIL GAIMAN
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âNever throw up on an editor.â
âELLEN DATLOW
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âWe write frankly and fearlessly but then we âmodifyâ before we print.â
âMARK TWAIN
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âI love being a writer. What I canât stand is the paperwork.â
âPETER DE VRIES
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âNever 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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