Writing process Quote by Edward Gorey

“Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his…

— Edward Gorey

“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph…

— Edward Gorey

“The memos that came from above telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him because they'd been dictated by semi-literates; all…

— Margaret Atwood

“He discovered that lack of sight confuses the ear.”

— Andre Norton

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to…

— Alain de Botton

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Mr Babbington,' he said, suddenly stopping in his up and down. 'Take your hands out of your pockets. When did you last write home?'…

— Patrick O'Brian

“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast…

— James Joyce

“He had no ears. The artificial ones, which now stood out at an angle from the fine wire, were his one weakness. They were…

— Robert W. Chambers

“Though he could not remember how he had been injured or how long he had been unconcious, his first thought was to call the…

— Michael Buckley

[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as…

— Paul Murray Kendall

“He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously that people might enjoy making fun…

— Patrick Süskind