Ring Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.

• Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly.

Shut up he explained.

• The Young Immigrunts (1920), Chapter 10, "N.Y. to Grenitch 500.0"

• 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.

• The Young Immigrunts (1920), Chapter 5, "My Father's Idear"

• 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.
  • Preface to How to Write Short Stories (1924)

• • All the way from Maugham and de Maupassant and Chekhov to the short story has served to portray the characteristics, the habits, the manners, the morals, the emotions of a nation, a whole people.
  • Edna Ferber Introduction, One basket (1947)

• Roving was good for the writer; to have been a reporter undoubtedly informed , Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane. To know far more than he may ever use is imperative for the writer.
  • Josephine Herbst "The Ruins of Memory" (April 4, 1956) in The Nation

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