Donald Spoto quotes

Donald Spoto quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.”
-- Donald Spoto

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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
“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.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”
“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”
“I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.”
“I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson”
“I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.”
“A truce to idle phrases!”

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