Nicholas May > Nicholas's Quotes

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you aren't writing perfection, don't stop and hope tomorrow's is better. Write what you have today, and let it ferment into perfection later.”
― Nicholas May

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
― Edith Sitwell

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“Don't ask me silly questions
I won't play silly games
I'm just a simple choo choo train
And I'll always be the same.

I only want to race along
Beneath the bright blue sky
And be a happy choo choo train
Until the day I die.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands