“great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”— Walter Benjamin, amazon.com
“Talented people do not need atmosphere to work. They do not need inspiration. They just need time and payment. They need to treat what they do like a job. They need to show up.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“It was like the imminent arrival of Gargantuan, preparations had to be made to widen the gutters of Denver and foreshorten certain laws to fit his suffering bulk and bursting ecstasies.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Mike may have gotten a lot of things about journalism wrong, but this one he got right: The duty of a media owner is to readers first, following very closely by a duty to support their team. All other confrontations are survivable as long as you do right by those two groups.”— Sarah Lacy, pando.com