As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is...

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is...

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never...

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never...

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists...

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists...

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...

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be...

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be...

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in...

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in...

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I...

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I...

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is...

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is...

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little...

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little...

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate...

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate...

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something...

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something...

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.