“Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.”
Brian Aldiss
“people have lost the true meaning of writing to write is not just to write something and get paid for to write is a special talent that a few people have when you have a gift and you have a dream money and all those extra things don't matter living your dream and being a true writer is the best dream you can live”
delesha shantae buford
“That scholar who is full of greed, arrogant pride and egotism, is known to be a fool. So read the Name, and realize the Name, and contemplate the Guru's Teachings.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Lust is vanity of a fool's desire.”
Jeremiah Billiot
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
Oscar Wilde
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
