Josquin was able to set the psalm 'Memor esti verbi servo tuo' as a reminder to the French king that his salary was due.- Nicolas Robertson, sleeve notes to Sacred Choral Music by William Mundy (The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers
I use Moleskine notebooks, not because they’re any better than the alternatives, but because they make me feel like a proper writer, and not some inadequately-medicated schizophrenic, taking dictation from the mad voices jabbering in his head. Which, at times, is what the writer’s life is like.- Anthony McGowan, on his website
AS MOST PEOPLE KNOW, it’s not easy to make money writing. Young writers read of a mythical past when aspiring authors could work for “newspapers” in exotic locales like Kansas City, but even if there is still a newspaper operating out of some soon-to-be-abandoned warehouse on the banks of the Missouri, I bet it isn’t hiring. The BFA/MFA track has become one of the last refuges for young writers before they start fighting their way into the welfare state of grants and fellowships, and even if we remain undecided on the question of whether writing can be taught — if I have to read another essay asking that question I may run away to Kansas City myself — we have definitively declared that the teaching and learning of creative writing can be a good way to make money (or at least to postpone the need to do so).- Johannes Lichtman, in the LA Review of Books
If you are determined, though, to invest some cash into your new pursuit – so as to guilt yourself into committing to it, because that technique has never not worked – free running shoes are a worthy investment.- Adam Baidawi, Esquire
... [A]ll the poets who ever were before me, particularly those I have read: but the editors who bought some of these poems at inadequate prices or printed others without paying anything I need not thank. On the contrary, they should thank me.- Basil Bunting, Caveat Emptor
- Sudarshan Purohit, intoductionIn those days [Pathak] earned much less from his own work than from the [James Hadley] Chase translations. Translating a Chase book was easier work, too, since he could do it in three or four days while sitting at his day job in the telephone company.
I am a writer, which means I’m trying not to be broke.- Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams
Attn Smyth,
I am Barrister.Larry Martins, (legal practitioner/advocates) Lome Togo. West Africa.I would like you to indicate your interest to receive the transfer of US $ 6,million left behind by my late client Mr S. M. Smyth, a national of your country, before the fund gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge amount were deposited.I will like you to stand as the next of kin to my late client whose account is presently dormant, for claims. Please contact me at (larrymartins455@yahoo.com) for more clarifications.
Hon.Larry Martins
(larrymartins455@yahoo.com)
