Robert Benchley - Work Quotes

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A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is "Don't you wish you knew?"

Robert Benchley

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Robert Benchley

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

Robert Benchley

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

Robert Benchley