"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
-George Bernard Shaw

With each encounter of literary witticism, whether Shaw, Twain, Shakespeare, or Wilde, I jealously shamed by my own inabilities. Authors must have spectacular friendships and even better rivalries.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
-William Faulkner

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
-Earnest Hemingway