"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try." - Fran Lebowitz


"What makes a heroine different is her difference from other women." - Rachel M. Brownstein


"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." - Anthony Trollope


"We live in thoughts and feelings, not in days and years." - William H. Hudson


"I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown." - Tom Stoppard


"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." - Robert A. Heinlein


"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot


"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand." - Raymond Chandler


"If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts." - Kurt Vonnegut


"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright