Dawn Powell People Quotations

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.