Quote #17
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
More from Robert Benchley
- A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
- It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
- Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
- So who's in a hurry?
- There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
- I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
- I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by pur…
- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.