Derek Raymond Quotes

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.

I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.

You Englishmen, ’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.