“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”

— J. P. Donleavy

Interviewed in Punch, March 22, 1978, p. 484.

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Novelist, playwright, essayist 1926–2017

Brownie Mary (1922–1999) American medical cannabis activist

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Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.”

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“The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

2007 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2007ltr.pdf
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
Context: The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.