Brooks Wrote

Famous quotes containing the words brooks and/or wrote:

“There they are.
Thirty at the corner.
Black raw, ready.
Sores in the city
that do not want to heal.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“As artists they’re rot, but as providers they’re oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)