A. E. Hotchner Quotes
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
A. E. Hotchner
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Madison Smartt Bell
I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
Rachel Kushner
Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.
Douglas Brunt
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John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
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Zachary Quinto
Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.
Matthew Desmond
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
A. Whitney Brown
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
A. E. Hotchner
