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WritingI know everything. One has to, to write decently.-- Henry James
Great Moments in Literature: In 1936, Ernest Hemingway, while trout fishing, caught a carp and decided not to write about it.
He was a multi-millionaire. Wanna know how he made all of his money? He designed the little diagrams that tell which way to put batteries in.
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good. And when it's bad, it's still better than nothing!
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
[about writing projects:]
An alarming new study shows that 14 percent of Americans do not speak English, and the vast majority of them write computer manuals."
Updating a manual is like changing tires on a moving car.
A modern US Navy cruiser now requires 26 tons of manuals. This is enough to affect the vessel's performance.
How do I know what I said until I read what I wrote?
All writing is garbage.
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
I wrote a few children's books...not on purpose.
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Writing . . . identifies objects encountered in the dark.
Easy reading is damned hard writing.
The publishing world has long been viewed by the general public as one inhabited by gentle, professional types--an ivory tower. It's perhaps in reaction to this oversimplified conception that people in publishing have, over the years, developed a professional jargon of peculiarly violent cast.
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
I can't tell you what it is....but I want you to write about it.
If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad.
Tpyo? What Tpyo?
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be real aloud easily.
Truth does not stick to glossy paper.
Writing is like prostitution: First you do it for the love of it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money.
It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.
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