Quote #19
So who's in a hurry?
More from Robert Benchley
- 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.
- I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
- The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- 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.
- Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any…
- Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.