The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Writers and Writing
Quotations by John Mortimer
Quotes :
- Yukio Mishima – dignity of life "We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. ... that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be…
- "Every writer should inevitably acknowledge the… "Every writer should inevitably acknowledge the fact their book sales will never match those of the bible" - Daniel Robert O'Neill
- "Even though the media has dubbed me… "Even though the media has dubbed me America's most controversial writer, occasionally my words find an open mind and I end up with a new friend, and at least on that day, I win." - Bobby W. Miller
- "Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses… "Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death." - Yusuf Islam