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“... 'How old is he?' the policeman asked Mrs. Reilly. 'I am thirty,' Ignatius said condescendingly. 'You got a job?' 'Ignatius hasta help me…

— John Kennedy Toole

You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to…

— John Kennedy Toole

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make…

— John Kennedy Toole

“When I consider, with all the clarity I can muster, what my life has apparently been, I imagine it as some brightly coloured scrap…

— Fernando Pessoa

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at…

— Lynne Truss

“They say that that's a difficult task, that nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful," he began with a smile. "But I'll try. Get me a…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it now, after so many years, with some complacency and a…

— Frederick Douglass

“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.”

— Thomas King

“I am by profession an agent and no writer, so you will have to pardon any lack of literary flourish.”

— Julian Darius

“All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased urging me in a friendly way not…

— Anton Chekhov