Dorothy Parker Quotes About Writing
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It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
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Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.
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I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?
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