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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
-Cole Porter
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Good Authors, Too, Who Once Knew Better

Cole Porter
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'some enchanted evening') rodgers and hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... brush up your shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
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You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the british museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
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Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. that idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. all the readers believe that authors do it. all the authors know that it can't be done.
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I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. but it hasn't been in the same form. i used to write scripts for television. i wrote for my comedy act. then i wrote screenplays, and then i started writing new yorker essays, and then i started writing plays. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the new yorker essays, but they were comic. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. in my head, there was a link between everything. one thing led to another.
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