“Life is one long process of getting tired.” — Samuel Butler

“Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.” —Joyce Carol Oates

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome

“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” — Edward R. Murrow

“If justice truly existed, prisons would be filled with politicians, not the poor.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

“Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to.” — Satchel Paige

“If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.” — Erwin Rommel

“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” — Ray Bradbury

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” — James Madison

“Things are simple when you’re going to die.” — Vivien Leigh

“From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.” — Will Durant

“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.” — Mark Twain

“Simplicity is not a simple thing.” — Charlie Chaplin

“No one is original. Everyone is derivative.” — Sonny Rollins

“Somebody else’s ignorance is bliss.” — Jack Vance

“The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.” — Walt Whitman

“Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.” — Edvard Munch

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.” — Rudyard Kipling

“Only the insane take themselves seriously.” — Max Beerbohm

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Lewis Carroll