A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation.… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre,… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
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