Paris Review is the Important Thing

I admire anyone who has the guts to write anything at all.
—E.B. White

Poetry isn’t lost in translation, it is translation.
—Peter Cole

Every time I write a play it is the beginning of a new life for me.
—Neil Simon

I revise a great deal. I know when something is right because bells begin ringing and lights flash.
—E.B. White

I married to be able to write, to settle down and give my attention back to the important thing.
—Alice Munro