• “I believe it’s a very poor writer who can’t spell a word more than one way.” — novelist Tobias Wolff
• “I’m here because I’m a publisher and a writer. This is the scene in which I swim in. And, yes, I’m here because there’s free vodka.” — Heyday Books founder Malcolm Margolin
• “It’s amazing how quickly spelling bees can turn into a death match. Spelling is a dirty business.” — Jeffrey Lependorf, executive director of Small Press Distribution in Berkeley.
The bee, by the way, was a fundraiser for Small Press Distribution, which, the San Francisco Chronicle notes, “since 1969 has been spelling ’survival’ for poets and writers without big book deals.”
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