Some Words on Writing

"Nine tenths of all existing books are nonsense."

--Benjamin Disraeli

"Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy."

--H.L. Mencken

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

--Sylvia Plath

"A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself."

--Edward Dahlberg

"Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs about them."

--Friedrich Nietsche

"Nietsche was stupid and abnormal."

--Leo Tolstoy