Book-of-the-Month Club News (May 1985).
“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”
“There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.”
“I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.”
Hobbit interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3n0fNVhADE&feature=youtu.be&t=7m25s, 2012.
1920s
Source: 'Die Blume Anna', a poem of Kurt Schwitters, published in 'Consistent Poetry Art' contribution to 'Magazine G', No. 3, ed. Hans Richter, 1924
LIFE magazine (8 March 1929)
Context: Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.
“A fair body of scholarship has come to challenge the view that elected officials reign supreme.”
Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 2, Participants on the Inside of Government, p. 43
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Source: Access to Inner Worlds (1990), p. 30
Context: In fact, we had a number of extreme leftists and trade unionists among us, and they seemed to take it for granted that we all agreed that the rich must somehow be forced to surrender their ill-gotten gains. Yet there was an air of good humor about their idealism that made me feel they would not be too offended if I admitted that I regard socialists as well-meaning but muddle-headed brigands.
“Artist should be left alone to paint or not to paint, write or not to write.”
Paris Review interview (1996)
“The challenge is to write about real things magically.”
Source: Selected Letters
