Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with … - Gene Weingarten

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

Gene Weingarten

Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

Consigning, Firsts, Idiot, Mere, Regarded, Rhyming

Same Author Quotes

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

One Thing, Think, Thinking, Understand, Writer, Writing

It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.

Awareness, Fatal, Needs, Pain, Spring, Unknown

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

Come, Rich, Want, Writer, Writing

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

Albatross, Created, Mean, Unfairly, Verbs

I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?

Book, Business, Feelings, Judged, Lingering, Towns