Attention Quote by Nat Hentoff

I got a letter one day from somebody saying, 'You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker is doing…

— Nat Hentoff

I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely…

— Nora Roberts

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what…

— Ferdinand Mount

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives…

— Francis Ford Coppola

“Never walk over a writer, I said to myself, unless you're positive he can't rise up behind you. If you're going to burn him,…

— Philip K. Dick

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

— David Foster Wallace

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual.…

— Toby Young

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot.…

— Tia Carrere

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

— Ben Joseph Akiba

“It's a fiendishly difficult thing to do because paper that has been written on doesn't burn easily.”

— Mikhael Bulgakov

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

— Samuel Beckett

“I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the…

— Gavin Maxwell