“ You’re not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane. Rebecca McNutt
“ If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, Nobody's, In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself l… Annie Dillard
“ I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain. T.J. Kirk
“ He walked to the top of a rise and crouched and watched the day accrue. The chary dawn, the cold illucid world. Cormac McCarthy
“ Oh, my God! Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. What an egregious insult to good taste. John Kennedy Toole
“ The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all. Criss Jami
“ Don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don’t be dull and boring andpretentious, don’t be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world… Charles Bukowski
