Dorothy Parker Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Happy, Writing

• I hate writing, I love having written.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hate, Writing, Written

• Writing well is the best revenge.

  Dorothy Parker

  Revenge, Writing, Wells

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

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Writing, Kick Ass

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Writing, Problem

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Revision, Seven

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

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Envelopes, Genius

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Hate, Book, Writing

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

  Dorothy Parker

  God, Writing, Childhood

  The Paris Review, 1956.

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hilarious, New York, Children

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Facts, Being The Best

• 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?

  Dorothy Parker

  Hurt, Lying, Book

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.80, Penguin

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Believe, Writing, Men

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Thinking, Six Months

  The Paris Review, 1956.

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Two, Theodore

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Hands, Snow

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

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Kings, Writing, Trying

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

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