Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
– Harold Ross
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
– Harold Ross
I understand the hero [of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms] keeps getting in bed with women, and the war wasn't fought that way.