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Dorothy Parker Quotes about Writing

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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

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.

Friendship, Happy, Writing

I hate writing, I love having written.

Hate, Writing, Written

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

Drinking, Writing, Problem

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

Writing, Envelopes, Genius

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

Art, Writing, Kick Ass

Writing well is the best revenge.

Revenge, Writing, Wells

"Fictional character: Sir Hugh Carleton Greene". "Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story", www.imdb.com. 2008.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

Writing, Revision, Seven

Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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.

God, Writing, Childhood

The Paris Review, 1956.

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.

Writing, Thinking, Six Months

The Paris Review, 1956.

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.

Kings, Writing, Trying

Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

Hate, Book, Writing

Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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.

Believe, Writing, Men

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

Writing, Two, Theodore

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.

Writing, Facts, Being The Best

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.

Writing, Hands, Snow

Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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