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jps@uh.msc.umn.edu (Jeff P. Sorvik) writes:
>Here is a somewhat unique request.  I need to give brief description of what
>I do as a Tech Writer to a group of government folks.  I am looking for
>an interesting/humorous quote that I can use to open this talk.

As a tech writer myself, here are a few of my favorite quotes about writing:

"Doctors bury their mistakes; the architect can always urge his client to
plant vines; but the writer publishes his mistakes."   --Ernest Hemingway
 	
"A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be
pure, but above suspicion of impurity." --Edgar Allan Poe

And this from Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style":

	"The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently,
	writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional
	wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by.
	A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in his blind for 
	something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping
	to scare something up."
--
Regards, Tom Cianflone
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