George

“I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.”
― Dorothy Parker, Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

“Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. ”
― Martin Amis, The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
― Iris Murdoch