Sam Graham > Sam's Quotes

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.”
― Derek Raymond, He Died With His Eyes Open

“I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.”
― Derek Raymond, He Died With His Eyes Open

“Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”
― Derek Raymond, He Died With His Eyes Open

“I knocked at a second-floor flat in a dreary house, one of two hundred in a dreary Catford street.”
― Derek Raymond, The Devil's Home On Leave

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

“Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.”
― Mickey Spillane

“Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot.
"Then find it yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye

“Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for. Amen.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye