It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
Edmund White
I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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