"Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are."

-- Robert Caro

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ties Quotes

“Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.”
“When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”
“You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons”

Source : Song: Alkaholik, Album: Restless
“Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.”

Source : Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”, p.49, Taylor Trade Publishing
“In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.”
“I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think ***** was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.”
“My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.”

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