h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I quote: "...work alone in darkened spaces."
I defend: "We rarely get paid sufficient to exite enough electrons into flowing through a tungsten filament fast enough to make it glow."

I quote: "They are mostly incredibly witty,"
I defend: "We are."

I quote: "...are usually beautiful souls to spend time with."
I defend: "We are."

I quote: "...deliberately keep antisocial hours"
I defend: "Non-writers have kept all the available social hours. We're just making use of what remains."

I quote: "Writers, in an odd shift of physical precedent, rarely ever get what's coming to them."

Walter Bagehot (1826-77) defends (on our behalf)in "The first Edinburgh Reviewers": "Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders."

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