On-writing Quote by Robert Benchley Download Open image ““The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”” — Robert Benchley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare On-writing Writing
The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“The freelance writer is one who is paid per piece, or per word, or perhaps.” – Peter Benchley” — Gabriel Boutros Copy Share Image
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature. He’d do this for free, not that he… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Write like you're paid by the word; edit like you pay for every word.” — Andy Hollandbeck Copy Share Image
“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who do not.” — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds… — Jamie Michaels Copy Share Image
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe that people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image