"Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point."

-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Men Quotes #Advice Quotes #Authorship Quotes

“I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.”
“To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.”
“You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.”
“Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.”
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
“Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2008). “Lake News”, p.74, Simon and Schuster
“Invest in everything, attach to nothing.”
“Before I was a genius I was a drudge.”

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