It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence—no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.


Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)

Dorothy Parker Quotes

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence—no first draft. I can't write five words but that I...

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence—no first draft. I can't write five words but that I...

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence—no first draft. I can't write five words but that I...

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence—no first draft. I can't write five words but that I...