Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Ann Landers in _The [Bend, OR] Bulletin_ 10/3/1966 p  8 col 4

"As Red Smith put it, "Writing a daily column is easy.  All you have to
do is sit at a typewriter until small drops of blood form on your
forehead." "

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> In The Yale Book of Quotations, I list the following under Thomas
Wolfe:
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> Writing is easy.  Just put a sheet of paper in the typewriter and
start
> bleeding.
> Quoted in Gene Olson, Sweet Agony (1972)
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> This is often attributed to Red Smith.  An alternative wording is
"There's
> nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a
vein."
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> Can anyone find pre-1972 evidence of any variant of this?
>
> Fred Shapiro
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