Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.
My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.
I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!
There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.
I don't think I am an actor, because I haven't studied to be an actress.
It is so common in middle-class families to consider modelling and acting not serious.
