Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!modcomp!tomc From: tomc@modcomp.uucp (Tom Cianflone) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Clever Quotes Keywords: quotes, tech writing Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 13:15:56 GMT References: <3824@uc.msc.umn.edu> Sender: news@modcomp.uucp (Mr. News) Organization: MODCOMP, an AEG company Lines: 24 jps@uh.msc.umn.edu (Jeff P. Sorvik) writes: >Here is a somewhat unique request. I need to give brief description of what >I do as a Tech Writer to a group of government folks. I am looking for >an interesting/humorous quote that I can use to open this talk. As a tech writer myself, here are a few of my favorite quotes about writing: "Doctors bury their mistakes; the architect can always urge his client to plant vines; but the writer publishes his mistakes." --Ernest Hemingway "A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity." --Edgar Allan Poe And this from Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style": "The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in his blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up." -- Regards, Tom Cianflone -or-