Ocupation: Writer
Life: December 25, 1908 - November 21, 1999
Birthday: December 25
Death: November 21
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
source: "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.
topic: Writing, Realist, Satirist