"I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there."

-- H. G. Wells

#Writing Quotes #Way Quotes #Walks Quotes

“There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.”
“I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.”
“The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?”
“The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.”
“There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.”
“The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...”
“Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now...”
“Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”

Source : Derek Raymond (2011). “He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1”, p.154, Profile Books

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