Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Work Week, stole a line from me before I was about to think of it and use it in one of my books.Tim writes, "The truth be told, it is a hell of a lot of work writing about not working."
The nerve of the guy!
As the author of The Joy of Not Working, I should have exlusive right to this line.
Perhaps I will have to sue him.
As Mark Twain once said, "I can’t do any more writing because I’m contemplating a gigantic lawsuit and looking around for a defendant."
Here are a few more quotes about writing by writers.
- I you want to be a writer - stop talking about it and sit down and write!
- Jackie Collings
Write drunk; edit sober.
- Ernest Hemingway
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.
- Grace Metalious
When I had got my notes all written out I thought I'd polish it off in two summers, but it took me twenty-seven years.
- Arnold Toynbee
The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
- Thomas Edison
Author of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
(Over 125,000 copies sold and published in 9 languages.
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