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Leadership - Past Presidents

Past Presidents

  • Maurice Zolotow
  • Temple Fielding
  • Donald Robinson
  • Morton Sontheimer
  • James Poling
  • Robert L. Heilbroner
  • Morton Hunt
  • Jack Harrison Pollack
  • Lawrence Lader
  • Murray Teigh Bloom
  • Vance Packard
  • Gerald Walker
  • Bernard Asbell
  • Robert Bendiner
  • Norman M. Lobsenz
  • Jean Libman Block
  • Thomas J. Fleming
  • William Surface
  • Alfred Balk
  • Theodore Irwin
  • Jhan Robbins
  • Lin Root
  • David R. Zimmerman
  • Terry Morris
  • Patrick M. McGrady Jr.
  • Mort Weisinger
  • Ruth Winter
  • Dian Dincin Buchman
  • Grace W. Weinstein
  • Sally Wendkos Olds
  • June Roth
  • John H. Ingersoll
  • Evelyn Kaye
  • Dodi Schultz
  • Glen Evans
  • David W. Kennedy
  • Thomas Bedell
  • Katharine Davis Fishman
  • Florence Isaacs
  • Mark L. Fuerst
  • Janice Hopkins Tanne
  • Claire Safran
  • Eleanor Foa Dienstag
  • Samuel Greengard
  • Jim Morrison
  • Lisa Collier Cool
  • Jack El-Hai
  • Robert Bittner
  • Russell Wild
  • Salley Shannon
  • Minda Zetlin
  • Randy Dotinga

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    – Sidney Sheldon
  • A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
    – Kenneth Tynan
  • A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self–addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
    – Ring Lardner
  • A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
    – Marguerite Yourcenar
  • All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary – it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
    – Somerset Maugham
  • Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
    – Christopher Hampton
  • Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
    – Lawrence Kasdan
  • Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
    –Wilson Mizner
  • Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
    – Flannery O'Connor
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    – Lawrence Welk
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    – Douglas Adams
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    – Stephen Wright
  • It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
    – Robert Benchley
  • It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
    – Andrew Jackson
  • Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.
    – Richard Curtis
  • No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self–deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
    – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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    –Somerset Maugham
  • Writing a novel is like paddling from Boston to London in a bathtub. Sometimes the damn tub sinks. It's a wonder that most of them don't.
    – Stephen King
  • Writing a novel is like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here.
    – Chang–rae Lee
  • Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
    –Samuel Johnson