A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Quote by Ring Lardner

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No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have...

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have...

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big...

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big...

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game...

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game...

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a...

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a...

This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth

This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is...

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is...

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control,...

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control,...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is...

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is...

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad...

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad...

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real...

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real...

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I...

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I...

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on...

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on...