Derek > Derek's Quotes

“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.”
― Harold Pinter, Betrayal