Robert Benchley

lickystickypickywe:

Beset with writer’s block, Robert Benchley typed the word The, thinking it “as safe a start as any.”

Then he left for an hour with friends.

On returning to his room he regarded the solitary word, alone on its expanse of blank paper.

He typed hell with it and “went out happily for the evening.”

 He once said:

“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing. But I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous.”

(Source: lickystickypickyshe)

11 months ago
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