“ I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. Irwin Shaw
“ ...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortun… John Gardner
“ I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing. P.G. Wodehouse
“ If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the i… William H. Gass
