Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries
Peter De Vrieswas an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. He has been described by the philosopher Daniel Dennett as "probably the funniest writer on religion ever"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1910
CountryUnited States of America
writing should-have beginning-middle-and-end
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
writing lasts discouraged
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
writing drunk discipline
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.
work writing written-word
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
death good
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
children marriage produce value
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
children marriage offspring produce themselves
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
food par
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
bit locked safe universe
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe.
laughter humor another-chance
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
kissing brain rubber
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
self abuse celibacy
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
pay rich taxes
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
love what-is-love blindness
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.