Derek Raymond Professions : Writer Born : June 12, 1931 Died : July 30, 1994 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Derek Raymond 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. Derek Raymond race winning trying Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. Derek Raymond style writing class She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life. Derek Raymond self-hatred realizing thinking I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool. Derek Raymond hard brain Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors