Pays

Famous quotes containing the word pays:

“Recognise the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

“It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain’t got any friends.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)