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“quiet, unprovocative, unfailingly polite to one another and to them, and whose occasional sadness bore the stamp of a dignity their jailers could never…

— Helen Rappaport

“There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.”

— Anonymous

“You're a writer, though. Your words are malleable, replaceable, and by definition untrustworthy. they mean nothing to you and that's what I'm afraid I…

— Morgan Parker

“The revelation of loneliness, the omnipresent, unanswerable feeling that I was in a state of lack, that I didn't have what people were supposed…

— Olivia Laing

“Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“It has suddenly occurred to me to write out word for word all that has happened to me during this last year, simply from…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment…

— Wilkie Collins

“Empty words from an empty person.”

— Kelsey Sutton

“The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!”

— Oscar Wilde

“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary…

— Rebecca Solnit

“From an early age I had enjoyed words, but as a lawyer, I was responsible for filing them down and forcing them to give…

— Jamie Ivey

“And what was left behind was an unblinking enigma of a man, ruthless, without borderlines, slippery as mist, beautiful, passionate, remote. And totally and…

— C.C. Gibbs