Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Derek Raymond

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British writer Derek Raymond.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Derek Raymond

Robert William Arthur Cook, better known since the 1980s by his pen name Derek Raymond, was an English crime writer, credited with being a founder of British noir.

Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — © Derek Raymond
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.
She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.
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