3 Robert Benchley Quotes on Writing

Robert Benchley quotes on writing

7. Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.

18. 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.

22. 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 other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.