Janet Flanner

“I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.”

“I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.”

“By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.”

“Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.”

“In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.”

“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.”

“When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.”

“She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.”

“She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.”