One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself – Jack London
Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day’s work – Ernest Hemingway
Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it – Jack London
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing – Ernest Hemingway
I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind – Jack London
A man can be destroyed but not defeated – Ernest Hemingway
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself – Jack London