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“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.”
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Burton Rascoe
Source : "Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes, Mostly Humorous" by Bennett Cerf, (p. 118), 1948.
#Writing Quotes
#Wife Quotes
#Window Quotes
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“Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.”
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Burton Rascoe
#Girl Quotes
#Lonely Quotes
#Art Quotes
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“A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.”
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Burton Rascoe
Source : "Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations" edited by Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards, 1933.
#Color Quotes
#People Quotes
#Important Quotes
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“American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian , don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.”
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Burton Rascoe
Source : "Fanfare" by Burton Rascoe in "H. L. Mencken", 1920.
#Jobs Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Light Quotes
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“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.”
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Burton Rascoe
Source : "Contemporary Reminiscences". Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26, (p. 50), 1927.
#Attitude Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Fifteen Quotes
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“I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.”
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Burton Rascoe
Source : "The Pumpkin Coach". Book by Louis Paul, 1935.
#Stuff Quotes
