Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell
Dawn Powellwas an American writer of novels and stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth28 November 1896
CountryUnited States of America
running book track
A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
kissing night hands
I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.
age ingredients dupes
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
writing people satire
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
new-york home cities
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.
laughter oxygen
I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.
mind overboard capacity
A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.
ohio ifs
All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.
love beautiful unbroken
Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.
anyone book indeed pathetic stone weep writer
This book is enough to make a stone weep and if anyone should read it they would think the writer was indeed in pathetic straits.