Alcohol Quote by Gyles Brandreth

“Why did you start to write? I left at 15.. I started to write becase I was taken off a ship from Germany when…

— Hubert Selby Jr

“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important thing you…

— Samuel R. Delany

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

— Evangeline Lilly

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting…

— Richard Matheson

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

— Neil Diamond

“Well … yes, and here we go again. But before we get to The Work, as it were, I want to make sure I…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“An evening. At six o’clock lay down on the sofa. Slept until about eight. Couldn’t get up, waited for the clock to strike, and…

— Franz Kafka

Writing was always something I had. I need this to survive when I'm empty, and losing my mind. My pain is in the words…

— Jeremy Limn

“At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to be a…

— Albert Camus

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably…

— David Foster Wallace

Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th…

— T.C. Boyle

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has…

— Denis Diderot