Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.