“I couldn't give a damn, [he said]. Writing is where I succeeded. I was a flop in everything else.”
Khushwant Singh releases his last book
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Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/84-jul30.htm with Bert Kleinman (30 July 1984). Cf. C. S. Lewis: "People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself."
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Fury / Dark Reunion
Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian
Quoted in Robert Benchley (1955) by Nathaniel Benchley, ch. 1
“Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
“I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
“God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man.”
Hoyt Axton (1938–1999) American country singer
The Pusher (1968)
Dorothy Allison (1949) poet, novelist, critic
Foreword to My Dangerous Desire: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Amber L. Hollibaugh, pg. xii.
Context: I want to write a great book — I want to make a difference — I want to have adventures and take enormous risks and be everything they say we are and not give a damn what anyone says.