"You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

William S. Burroughs

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“Victor Faust did much more than help me escape a life of abuse and servitude. He changed me. He changed the landscape of my dreams, the dreams I had every day about living ordinarily and free and on my own. He changed the colors on the palette from primary to rainbowâ€”as dark as the colors of that rainbow may be.”

Source : J. A. Redmerski (2013). “Killing Sarai”, p.279, J.A. Redmerski
“Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.”
“The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss.”
“That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental destruction or heartbreak, or my grandmother. The subject isn't what the core is about, it's about truthfulness and authenticity and that just comes from my heart and soul.”
“A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.”
“Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?”
“The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.”
“I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.”

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