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.

Quotes

 * 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)

Quotes about Ring Lardner

 * All the way from Maugham and de Maupassant and Chekhov to Ring Lardner 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 Ring Lardner, 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