Burton Rascoe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
-- Burton Rascoe

#Writing #Wife #Window
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.
-- Burton Rascoe

#Girl #Lonely #Art
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.
-- Burton Rascoe

#Color #People #Important
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.
-- Burton Rascoe

#Jobs #Ideas #Light
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.
-- Burton Rascoe

#Attitude #Men #Fifteen
I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
-- Burton Rascoe

#Stuff

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.
Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!
I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.
The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.
Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

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