Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

Quote by Herbert Gold

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He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk...

Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as...

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one...

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a...

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a...

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be...

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be...

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then...

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then...

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass...

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass...

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is...

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is...

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I'll write...

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I'll write...

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but...

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but...

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the...

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the...

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their...

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their...