These are some quotes from - Mortification – Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame

Fun book about someauthors and their stories about how things can go wrong at their public readings and other stories.


If you board the wrong train, it’s no use running along the corridor in the other direction. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect, compared with which reproach, hatred and opposition are neames of happiness. – Samuel Johnson

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. – Richard Steele

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard. – Thoreau

Of all the 36 alternatives, running away is best. – Chinese proverb

The drowning man is not troubled by rain. – Persian proverb

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith