Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner
Janet Flannerwas an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt". She also published a single novel, The Cubical City, set in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth13 March 1892
CountryUnited States of America
genius talent take-time
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
two ink week
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
want-something people want
... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
money war men
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.
years alive firsts
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.
peace storm died
She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
facts wreckage defeat
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.