Assuming Quote by Dorothy Parker

“ [On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all…

— Dorothy Parker

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

“The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea. In ratiocination, not less than in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. W. Somerset Maugham”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“One of the great books of our time. I should know; I wrote it." (apocryphal)”

— Tim Roux

Those who are inspired by quotes and epigrams are those who will inspire the wisdom and ingenuity needed to change the world.

— Anonymous

“Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the lenth and…

— Robert Farrar Capon

I joke that my epitaph will be, 'No Oscars, but at least he had a game named after him.'

— Kevin Bacon

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing…

— Nora Ephron

“I was a born empiricist. I believed that writers were paid to pretend, and where appropriate should make use of the real world, the…

— Ian McEwan

The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton…

— Graydon Carter