(1893–1967)
U.S. poet, short story writer, and social satirist
Dorothy Parker
There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 9.
As for me, I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 14.