Jack Bickham quotes

“Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.”
-- Jack Bickham

Source : Jack Bickham (1997). “The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes”, p.2, Writer's Digest Books

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“Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.”
-- Jack Bickham

Source : Jack Bickham (1997). “The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books

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“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”

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

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

“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.”

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.”

“Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.”

Source : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.4, Rodale

“Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.”

“You can have results or excuses. Not both.”

“We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.”