Quips and Quotes

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms which reunite. Islanded between them the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.
(Cyril Connolly)

Tell the truth and run. (Yugoslavian proverb)

On writing

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

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. (T.S. Eliot)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A.J. Liebling)

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. (W. Somerset Maugham)

No comment
“Emblazoned in red across the cover of this book is “Reviewed by Carl W. Schaefer”. I did review the manuscript . . . But I did not expect the fact of my fairly routine review for the publisher to be trumpeted forth in red.” [disclaimer by Carl W. Schaefer in his review of Assassin Bugs (D.P. Ambrose) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94(2): 298.]

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Volume 20, No. 2, Fall 2001