Nothing Stinks Like a Pile of Unpublished Writing!
These are some quotes about the writing life that I am adding to my websites (inspirational quotes and retirement jobs.
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
— Sylvia Plath
Nice guys can't write.
— Knox Burger (Literary Agent)
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
— H. L. Mencken
Writing is a profession in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
— Jules Renard
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
— Leo Tolstoy
I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
— Jean-Jacques Rosseau
This Zelinski guy knows how to write prose that has the potential to become those old proverbs everyone repeats.
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—Herb Denenberg, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
About Ernie
Ernie J. Zelinski is an international best-selling author, innovator, life-coach, unconventional career expert, and creativity consultant.
Ernie's many life-changing books have helped hundreds of thousands of individuals from all...
Alas, my office stinketh mightily. :(
On the other hand, I'm finding some forgotten gems in the pile, that with, perhaps, a little polishing, regurgitation, and luck, might find their destiny.
Hope springs eternal. :)
Eric