S. N. Parker Quotes

I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.

Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

People are more fun than anyone.

Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.

[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

Somebody was using the pencil.

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.

Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.

Eternity is a ham and two people.

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

People are more than fun than anybody.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

And where does she find them?

Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

Every piece of music is not for everybody.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.