Victoria Wilson quotes

“I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed their subject - and one day the impulse came to me to write a life of someone. I made a long list of possible subjects and [ Barbara] Stanwyck was on the list.”
-- Victoria Wilson

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“I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.”
-- Victoria Wilson

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“Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.”
-- Victoria Wilson

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“I would say she [Barbara Stanwyck] did her job as best she could; an honest day's work for an honest day's pay - and when it was over, it was over.”
-- Victoria Wilson

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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.”

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”