Yes, and there is another real good one, something like "Writing is easy. You just sit in front of the typewriter until you bleed red." Something like this by someone-or-other, I cannot recall.
Holy Crow! Was I ever off! My girlfriend and I are just sitting here and she is dripping ice water into my mouth from an ice cube that is melting in her hand [don't ask, it's just a Wednesday evening thing that is done around here... a ritual] and she laughs and says "Cippy, you're so silly. Don't you remember how that quote goes?" Then she tells me: "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." -- "Red" Smith -- When I asked if they called him "Red" because he was bleeding all over his typewriter, she threw ice at me. Now I'm bleeding!
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Great quotation, Cipriano!
It reminds me of one by Ernest Hemingway: "Easy writing makes hard reading."
Yes, and there is another real good one, something like "Writing is easy. You just sit in front of the typewriter until you bleed red."
Something like this by someone-or-other, I cannot recall.
Holy Crow! Was I ever off!
My girlfriend and I are just sitting here and she is dripping ice water into my mouth from an ice cube that is melting in her hand [don't ask, it's just a Wednesday evening thing that is done around here... a ritual] and she laughs and says "Cippy, you're so silly. Don't you remember how that quote goes?"
Then she tells me:
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
-- "Red" Smith --
When I asked if they called him "Red" because he was bleeding all over his typewriter, she threw ice at me. Now I'm bleeding!
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
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