Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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An AP column:


_Lewiston [ME] Evening Journal_ 9/9/1949 p 4 col 7
"Red Smith, celebrated sports columnist of the New York Herald Tribune,
said:  "No, you just sit down at your typewriter, open your veins -- and
bleed." "

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lYIpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JWcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1
042,5959936&dq=typewriter+bleed+red-smith&hl=en




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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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