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“...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.”
― Robert Charles Wilson

“I'll never amount to anything—well anything my parents want,
so instead I’ll end up puking and drinking till I’m blind drunk,
It’s funny my mother says I hurt myself to spite her
but she doesn’t know I hurt myself because I am, I am, I am a writer.”
― P.A. Bitez, Soft Tortures

“What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music: Charles Bukowski's Classic Dirty Realism – Raw Beat Generation Stories of Working-Class Life