“When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.” Quote by Vera Farmiga
“I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway.” PeopleThinkingWellsDonePainComedyEasierDramaLeap Author:Sandra Bullock
“New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.” BookNew YorkBrokenJudgmentNewspapersCollectionsEstablishmentHacksBroken Down Author:James Purdy
“The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.” WorldArtistWorstNew YorkNewspapersViciousNew York Times Author:James Purdy
“Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.” BrokenJournalistAlcoholicsBroken Down Author:James Purdy
“Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.” WellsIdeasSeemsNo IdeaPublishersAlcoholicsHaze Author:James Purdy
“The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.” AmericaIlliterateInsensitive Author:James Purdy
“Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.” WayLittlesFeelingsRocksNew YorkCriticsMagazinesTabooNew York TimesNew Yorkers Author:James Purdy
“None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.” PeopleBookFactsAliveSellersBest Sellers Author:James Purdy
“As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence.” IfsSaidWonderSuccessfulStupidNew YorkSummerDecidedWinterGiantsViciousNew York TimesIncompetenceOpinionatedMyopic Author:James Purdy
“Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.” AmericaHugeOfficialsFraud Author:James Purdy