Creative Quotations from . . .
Dorothy Parker
(1893-1967) born on Aug 22
US "author, poet, journalist, humorist". "She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote "Enough Rope," 1926 and "The Little Hours," 1944."
Share |
         
   
F
Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

R
She ran the whole gamut of her emotions from A to B.
A
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
N
Somebody was using the pencil.
K
"There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it."
 
Be More Creative

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Of Los Angeles, but others are attr. with the description. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes"
R: "Of Katharine Hepburn in play "The Lake," 1933; quoted in A. Woollcott, While Rome Burns, `Our Mrs Parker'"
A: "On lady novelists; Interview in Writers at Work (First Series, ed. by Malcolm Cowley, 1958)."
N: "On why she missed a in "New Yorker," deadline; in "The Years with Ross," by James Thurber, 1959."
K: On writing humor.
   



copyright 1996-2009 by Baertracks at bemorecreative.com