Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

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It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America...

It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America...

Where it all will end, knows God.

Where it all will end, knows God.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There...

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There...

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There...

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There...

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking...

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

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...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple...

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple...

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon....

Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon....

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

I work until beer oclock.

I work until beer oclock.

An author departs, he does not die

An author departs, he does not die

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and...

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and...

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of...

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of...