As for me, I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have the money. I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American writer, poet, wit

Interview (1956, Summer), “The Art of Fiction, No. 13,” by Marion Capron, The Paris Review, Issue 13
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Collected in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series (1958).