"All of my books come from pain."

-- Bret Easton Ellis

#Pain Quotes #Book Quotes

“To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.”
“I think it is easy to be a doctor. There are a hell of a lot more doctors than there are guys riding big Pipeline.”
“The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.”

Source : 'Public Advertiser' 24 April 1769, Letter 11
“When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so much free time. When you are at home, you have a guitar. There's a cat. You got to find ways to create an environment when writing is like going to work. Be efficient with the hours you put into the book. So I go there the same time, every day - like 7:30 am - and I leave around 2 pm, or longer, if I have a deadline.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.”
“I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.”
“A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.”

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