Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.Henry David Thoreau
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?Virginia Woolf
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.J. K. Rowling
I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.Jordan Peterson
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.Marilyn Monroe
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.George Orwell
