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> [Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/writing-is-easy-just-sit-in-front-of-a-typewriter-open-up-a-vein-and/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7f/red-smith-20048_art_writing-is-easy-just-sit-in-front-of-a-t_668404.png)

> [“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/writing-is-easy-all-you-have-to-do-is-sit-down-at-the-typewriter-cut/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

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## More by Red Smith

> [Young men have visions, old men have dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/young-men-have-visions-old-men-have-dreams/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/i-like-to-get-where-the-cabbage-is-cooking-and-catch-the-scents/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/dying-is-no-big-deal-living-is-the-trick/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/the-natural-habitat-of-the-tongue-is-the-left-cheek/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/writing-is-very-much-like-bricklaying-you-learn-to-put-one-brick-on/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/ninety-feet-between-home-plate-and-first-base-may-be-the-closest-man/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/it-was-an-ideal-day-for-football-too-cold-for-the-spectators-and-too/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/writing-is-easy-just-sit-in-front-of-a-typewriter-open-up-a-vein-and/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/in-entertainment-value-the-democratic-clambake-usually-lays-it-over/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/unlike-the-normal-pattern-i-know-i-have-grown-more-liberal-as-i-ve/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/as-a-ballplayer-dizzy-dean-was-a-natural-phenomenon-like-the-grand/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/i-have-known-writers-who-paid-no-damned-attention-whatever-to-the/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/ninety-feet-between-the-bases-is-the-nearest-thing-to-perfection-that/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/any-sportswriter-who-thinks-the-world-is-no-bigger-than-the-outfield/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

> [“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-smith/writing-is-easy-all-you-have-to-do-is-sit-down-at-the-typewriter-cut/)

[Red Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-smith/)

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