Kerry Wilkinson quotes

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself.
-- Kerry Wilkinson

#Writing #Reason

I am doing enough to survive but it isn’t the same as living.
-- Kerry Wilkinson

#Enough

Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple.
-- Kerry Wilkinson

#Simple #Want #Easy

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.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only….Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,