[Air-L] quotations on line

[Mary-Helen Ward]

I'm finding references to it as being a quote from Douglas Adams (writer of
_The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_).

M-H


On 9/9/07 2:32 AM, "Barry Wellman" <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> I yet again ran into frustration trying to find the source (publication,
> date) for a quotation. Finding the quote is easy. In this case:
> 
> Gene Fowler, "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of
> paper until little drops of blood form on your forehead."*
> 
> But when was it uttered or written. The many quotation pages on the web
> seem Never to give sources. (Methinks, many just copy from each other.)
> 
> They seem to be aimed at giving sound-bytes to speakers, bloggers, etc.
> 
> Barlett's QUotations was sterling on this in print days. Does it still
> exist?
> 
> Any other advice?