I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. – Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 1957 September 21st
New technology is useful, but its inefficient and ugly it knows itll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. – Tom Holt
Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I dont starve myself in an extremist way. Youre not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because Id be devastated. – Jennifer Aniston