All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true. — 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
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New… — 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
Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by… — 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
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
Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers. — 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
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
“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must… — 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
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