It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence-no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven. (Dorothy Parker)

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence-no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Dorothy Parker

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