Dean Meadors - Freelance Writer

"It took me 15 years to discover I had no talent for writing; but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."

- Robert Benchley

"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window."

-Burton Rascoe

"Mike Hammer drinks beer, not cognac, because I can't spell cognac."

-Mickey Spillane

"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."

-Red Smith

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

-John Steinbeck

"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me."
-Anatole France

"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."

-Elbert Hubbard