What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
