Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 5 Oct 1993 to 6 Oct 1993

[Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM>]

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|} Tech Writers:
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|} Our student chapter of the STC here at Tech would like to enlist
|} your help in rounding up quotable quotes about writing...of all
|} types...by people who do it daily.
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My all time favorite, I think, is Hemmingway. Though not written especially
for Technical Writers, it does seem to fit what I do:

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit
detector. This is a writer's radar, and all good writers have it.
                -- Ernest Hemmingway

Plus, as an added bonus today only:

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
                -- Robert Frost

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops
of blood form on your forehead.
                -- Gene Fowler

All of us learn to write in second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
                -- Bobby Knight

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
                -- Kingsley Amis

All writing is garbage.
                -- Antonin Artuad

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
                -- Leo Rosten


Now how much would you pay?

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