Manager as Muse Quotes

“Like many writers, Hemingway thought of his craft as a trade that he was continually learning and at the mercy of. He told his son Gregory of his own try at writing, “Writing’s got to flow and come easy if it’s good and this stuff ‘smells of the lamp.’ You know that old phrase—smells like you’ve been up all night working on it over a kerosene lamp” (James,”
― Kathleen Dixon Donnelly, Manager as Muse: Maxwell Perkins' Work with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial”
― Kathleen Dixon Donnelly, Manager as Muse: Maxwell Perkins' Work with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe