Genius in Disguise Quotes

“In retrospect I am beginning to think of him as an Atlas who lacked muscle tone but who God damn well decided he was going to hold up the world anyway.”
― Thomas Kunkel, Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker

“H. L. Mencken once felt compelled to offer a friendly piece of advice to William Saroyan. “I note what you say about your aspiration to edit a magazine,” said the man only a few years removed from guiding the groundbreaking American Mercury. “I am sending you by this mail a six-chambered revolver. Load it and fire every one into your head. You will thank me after you get to Hell and learn from other editors how dreadful their job was on earth.”
― Thomas Kunkel, Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker