Books Quote by Caroline Rody

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to…

— Ken Scott

“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most,…

— Eve Babitz

“Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how to order…

— Keir Graff

“And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink next to the typewriter. But the longer I lived…

— Jeanne Darst

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

“There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

— Guy Debord

“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.”

— Ksenia Anske

“There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.”

— Clay Griffith

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

“I admit I'm an escapist when it comes to books. I become drunk on story, on words, as a buffer against reality.' . .…

— Joanna Davidson Politano

“One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ... ... and drinking coffee.”

— Linda Ghaderi