As quoted in "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, (24 April 1994)
“Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
Telegram to his brother, upon the news that Addison was fatally ill.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
On Death and Dying
“we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.”
Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives
Source: The Savage Detectives
“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”
Ann Brashares The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.”
Robert Orben (1928) American magician and writer
Henry Allen (January 4, 1979) "Life in the Laugh Factory", The Washington Post, p. B1.
“I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.”
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
As quoted in "Ba Jin: A Century of Literary Greatness" at the China Internet Information Center (November 2003) http://www.china.org.cn/english/2003/Nov/80700.htm
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
The English Renaissance of Art https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/english-renaissance-of-art/ (1882)
“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”
J. P. Donleavy (1926–2017) Novelist, playwright, essayist
Interviewed in Punch, March 22, 1978, p. 484.
“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
Edna O'Brien (1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer
Source: A Fanatic Heart
Mike Myers (1963) Canadian- British- American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and film producer
Interview with Joe Utichi, RT-UK: Mike Myers Interview https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/rtuk-mike-myers-interview/, rottentomatoes.com, 27 June 2007.
