Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist
If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.
No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.
I thought men like that shot themselves.
I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.