The Paris Review: Dorothy Parker, The Art of Fiction No. 13

INTERVIEWER

What, then, would you say is the source of most of your work?

PARKER

Need of money, dear.

INTERVIEWER

And besides that?

PARKER

It’s easier to write about those you hate—just as it’s easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

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