Ivan Zullo

“Either we die here in the snow or we die fighting. I prefer the hard way.”
― Michael Curtis Ford, The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“We got some beer and some cheap wine and rented a room at a rundown motel and stayed up most of the night telling lies and a few sad truths that we hoped the other would think were lies.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Savage Season

“Some English learners worry about this. ‘I’d love to lose my foreign accent and sound just like a native speaker,’ they say. To which I answer, ‘Why? Why do you want to lose your identity?’ And I advise them to be proud of their accent, in just the same way as I would tell people in Britain’s regions to be proud of the way they speak, and not feel so insecure that they look for alternatives. As long as learners can communicate clearly and effectively, native speakers need ask for no more.”
― Ben Crystal, You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents

“Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Savage Season