Quote by Edward St. Aubyn

“Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame…

— M. Kirin

“such thoughts had often knocked for entrance, but had always been excluded for the very good reason that if they were once entertained it…

— C.S. Lewis

“It disturbed me that he saw things in such black-and-white tones. I sure didn't. For me, the world was a confusion of color.”

— Dia Reeves

“Words that had looked so strong on the page, which ran through his mind like music, now shriveled in the air around him.”

— Peter Murphy

“He turned the pages in steady progression, though now and then he would seem to linger upon one page, one line, perhaps one word.…

— William Faulkner

“Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway…

— Helen DeWitt

“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been…

— Virginia Woolf

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when their very…

— Skye Warren

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering…

— Isaac Asimov