Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Walter Winchell column:  _Logansport [IN] Pharos-Tribune_ 4/8/1949 p 4
col 7 [newspaperarchive]

"Red Smith was asked if turning out a daily column wasn't quite a chore
... "Why, no," dead-panned Red, "You simply sit down a the typewriter,
open your veins, and bleed." "


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> An AP column:
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> _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." "
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http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lYIpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JWcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1
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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."
> >
> > Can anyone find pre-1972 evidence of any variant of this?
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> > Fred Shapiro
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