For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look like birds, when they could pass as vultures and no questions asked.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Authors are often stereotyped as looking like unusual or unappealing creatures.
- In plain terms
- Writers are expected to look like birds or fish.
- What can you take from it?
- Stereotypes often dictate how we expect creative people to look.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do we associate jobs with specific looks?
Another view
It relies on absurd physical caricatures.
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