Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.


Jessamyn West

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My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST
When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
MAE WEST
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p...
REBECCA WEST
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers j...
REBECCA WEST
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di...
REBECCA WEST
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
MAE WEST
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
NATHANAEL WEST
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
REBECCA WEST