14 Quotes by patrick dennis

she thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame

She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.

Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir--or Sewer--Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Tony's.

Morning, I soon discovered, was one o’clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.

Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.

No, Virginia, there is no Auntie Mame, she is a distillation and a moonbeam and nothing more.

Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.