Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. Don't be a writer.
Writing is an escape from something.
You be a scientist. There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind that reveres details and never quite understands them. When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than read.