[Air-L] quotations on line

[Zeynep Tufekci]

P.S. That was the earliest Lexis entry with the quote, strongly suggesting
that the quote surfaced in the public sphere with that book in 1980. No
earlier references in Google books either.

Gene Fowler, on the other hand, died in 1960. Either the quote somehow
survived floating in the ether at least for two decades or it is ascribed to
Fowler after-the-fact.

-z


On 9/8/07, Zeynep Tufekci <socnetres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Barry and all,
>
> I did a Lexis search. I found a NYT article from 1980 that traces the
> quote to a book, "The Writer's Quotation Book: A Literary Companion''
> (Pushcart Press, P.O. Box 845, Yonkers, N.Y. 10701). Below is an portion
> of the Lexis entry.
>
>
> -z
>
>
>
> The New York Times
> August 10, 1980, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
> BOOK ENDS WRITERS ON WRITING
>
> *BYLINE:* By Randolph Hogan
>
> *SECTION:* Section 7; Page 35, Column 1; Book Review Desk
>
> *LENGTH:* 1098 words
>
> When the small Manhattan publisher Quick Fox needed a giveaway for the
> recent American Booksellers Association convention, editor in chief James
> Charlton, who has spent years collecting quotations on books and writing,
> decided to gather them up and hand them out. The result was so popular that
> the material was expanded into ''The Writer's Quotation Book: A Literary
> Companion'' (Pushcart Press, P.O. Box 845, Yonkers, N.Y. 10701). Here's a
> sampling:
>
> ...
>
> Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper
> until the drops of blood form on your forehead. Gene Fowler
> ...
>
>
>