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• Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
  -- Christopher Hampto...
• Asking a writer 'where do you get your ideas' is like asking a butcher 'exactly what DO you put in this sausage'?
  -- Roy Blount, Jr....
• Asking about monsters may be very useful.
• Are they taking DDT?
• Asking PAC BELL for advice is like asking IRS tax advice.
• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city.
  Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad....
• What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.