I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The New Yorker 25 (50): 34–35. He supported himself with a number of different jobs including those of vending machine operator toffee-apple salesman radio actor in the 1930s and editor for Poetry magazine from 1938 to 1944.   Humorous piece about jazz snobs.

Peter De Vries (February 27 1910 – September 28 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.