Burton Rascoe Quotes

#1. I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

Burton Rascoe

#2. What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Burton Rascoe

#3. 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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#4. No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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