Benjamin David

“Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.”
― Irving Howe

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
― Orson Welles

“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit."

[Ten rules for writing fiction (part two), The Guardian, 20 February 2010]”
― Will Self

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae