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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
It is difficult not to write satire.
I like to write a lot of satire.
I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Satire is focused bitterness.
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.