Scratch Plate

Famous quotes containing the words scratch and/or plate:

“And now I even have to scratch my back myself.”
—Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)

“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the “mainstream” culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn’t think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”
—Jan Clausen (b. 1943)