Quotes About Author

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Wandering aimlessly, broken by my thoughts, Which slowly sharpened daggers at my heart

One man illumines you with his other sets in you his sorrow.

Nature can counsel nothing but crime.

drunk on my own madness, I cried furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

Toute phrase doit être en soi un monument bien coordonné, l'ensemble de tous ces monuments formant la ville qui est le Livre.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

Your writing, she said to me, it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

Man is the victim of an environment which refuses to understand his soul.

Love is alright for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss!!

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.

Most of these men's lives were so tortured that I enjoyed reading about them, thinking, well, I am in hell too and I can't even write music.

they thought that writing had something to do with the politics of the thing. they were simply not crazy enough in the head to sit down to a typer and let the words bang out. they didn't want to write they wanted to succeed at writing.

I was simply the target of their discontent and in some real sense they blamed me for not being able to rouse them out of a failed past; what they didn't consider was that I had my troubles too—most of them caused by simply living with them.

Sometimes you make a mistake, taking the wrong poem more often I make the mistake, writing it.

she was consumed by 2 simple things: despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more: youth and beauty

I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance.

presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she had made were too numerous to mention.

MR. JONSTONE IS A FINE MAN! Don't be silly. He's an obvious sadist, I said.

In a sense, as much as I disliked it, education helped when you were looking at a menu or for a job, especially when you were looking at a menu.