Firsts Quote by Richard Meltzer

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

— Eric Hobsbawm

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if…

— Lester Bangs

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get…

— Joyce Tenneson

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

— Tibor Fischer

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

— Elizabeth Berg

Honestly, if anyone reads my work, they're doing me a favor, so they get to use whatever words they want to describe it. I…

— Celeste Ng

I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I…

— Jemima Kirke

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

— Elisabeth Shue

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed…

— Richard Meltzer

The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer.…

— Richard K. Morgan