“Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work....."But, that's not writing . That's typing.”
“Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing.”
“That's not writing, that's typing.”
“Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac”
“That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.”
“Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.”