Samuel Beckett used to drive his neighbor, Andrea the Giant, to school every day.

 I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.” — Mark Twain

Emily Dickinson wrote over 1,800 poems. Only seven were published in her lifetime, all without her consent.

If you don't feel like you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you are not trying to tell enough.” — John Irving

“I am faced with a stark choice between being a bad correspondent and being a good novelist.” — Neal Stephenson

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” — E.L. Doctorow

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.” — Peter De Vries

“Every author, as far as he is great and at the same time original, has had the task of creating the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.” — William Wordsworth

trip to Chicago

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."” —Douglas Adams