I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

—Peter De Vries

About Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 – September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.

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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

—Peter De Vries

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

—Peter De Vries

I don't think that the comic and the serious can be separated in talking about human reality, any more than you can separate hydrogen and oxygen and still be talking about water.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

—Peter De Vries

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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

—Peter De Vries

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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

—Cyril Connolly

You are going to have to give and give and give, or there’s no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

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