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• When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. -- Edward Abbey
• Books are like eggs--best when fresh. -- Edward Abbey
• Only a mediocre writer is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soo
  othing but words. -- Edward Abbey...
• Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 130...
• The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills. -- Edward Abbey
• The writer speaks not *to* his audience (who wants to listen to lectures?
  ) but *for* them, expressing their thoughts and emotions through the imaginative power of his art....
• A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
  -- Alistair Cooke, journali...