J. P. Donleavy Quotes

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.

When you don't have any money the problem is food. When you have money it's sex. When you have bot...

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

She thought too that women didn't know what to do with themselves these days which could turn them i...

O summer and soft wind. Relieves the heart and makes living cheaper.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, ...

Ginny Cupper took me in her car out to the spread fields of Indiana. Parking near the edge of woods ...

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a ...