Quotes by Benchley, Robert

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or pe >>

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and >>

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is sup >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! >>

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never trie >>

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to >>

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.

Benchley, Robert