Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlinwas an American journalist and author. In the 1950s, she began publishing aphorisms that were later collected in three books, entitled, The Neurotic’s Notebook, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook and The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook. She is known for a number of quotes, among them:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 June 1913
CountryUnited States of America
writing typewriters names
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
writing
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
children writing night
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
heart writing joy
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
life writing novel
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
writing pages leafs
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
book writing reviews
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
men ego cures
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
women littles able
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
american-journalist among count handful money ourselves people whom
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.
american-journalist
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
society
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
courage gets matters minute next
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next
composed strength weakness
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show