They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so Id be sure to have some dough to support my family. – Francis Ford Coppola
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Theres not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. – Anthony Hecht