Ring Lardner

"Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly."

"Soon my father had payed the check and gave the waiter a lordly bribe and once more we sprang into the machine and was on our way."

"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."

"Roving was good for the writer; to have been a reporter undoubtedly informed Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane. To know far more than he may ever use is imperative for the writer."