Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — Advice to Young Writers. [ARTICLE]

Advice to Young Writers.

I do not generally advise young men to monkey with literature, but you seem to have been moderately successful so far, and it might be well to give it a thorough trial You should use great care, however, in selecting the fielcLof literature which you intend to perspire in. Do not be a humorist! If you are a humorist everybody else will have more fun out of it than you will. You will make some money out of it if you get the genuine afflatus, but you won’t have any fun. It is all a mislake. I am acquainted with one, and he says he has not smiled since he lost his twins. Once I heard of a humorist who had laughed twice in one summer, and I hunted him out. He was not a humorist, but had some other trouble, the name of which has escaped my mind.— Bill Nye.