...no writer, whether he writes from love or for money, can condescend to what he writes. You can't stoop to what you set down on paper; I don't why you can't, but you can't. No matter what form it takes, and no matter what the result, and no matter how caustically comic you are about it afterward, what you did was your best. And to do your best is always hard going. [Screen Guilds Magazine, May 1936]
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions
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Hi,
That's a great quote. Is there a way I could get from you a copy of the whole article? I run dorothyparker.com. Thanks for having her on your blog.
kevin (at) dorothyparker (dot) com
It is, isn't it? Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the whole article, I got the quote from a book called "Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age," by Patrick McGilligan.
Dorothy Parker's not one of the screenwriters interviewed, but the quote appears in some historical material.
Cool-looking site.
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