Deepak

“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."

(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”
― Marianne Moore

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price