Stephen Leigh...

"You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer."

This quote is dedicated to J. D. Rhoades

Eugene Ionesco...

"A writer never has a vacation.

For a writer
life consists
of either writing
or thinking about writing."

This quote is dedicated to J. D. Rhoades.

Joan Didion...

"Why had he forgotten to bring note cards that night? Had he not warned me when I forgot to my own notebook that 'the ability to make a note when something came to mind was the difference between being able to write and not being able to write.'"

Joan Didion on her husband’s advice to always carry note cards. From "The Year of Magical Thinking."

John Gregory Dunne...

"I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.”