“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”

“Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.”

“Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.”

“The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles each on its own side of the road each soun...”

“I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”

“I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”

“great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this aft...”

“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on ...”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”