What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

- Burton Rascoe

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

- Burton Rascoe

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

- Burton Rascoe

I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had de…

- Burton Rascoe

Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art…

- Burton Rascoe

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The maj…

- Burton Rascoe