About John O'Hara: John Henry O'Hara was an Irish American writer. He first earned a reputation for short stories and later became a best-selling novelist before the age of thirty with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8.
Bing: You’re a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn’t go your way, anything that you can’t have you destroy.
There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty that he knows he never will get rid of it. (Shakespeare knew this and tried to say it, but he said it just as badly as anyone ever said it. 'All...
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
An artist is his own fault.
Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?
