The Authors League Fund

"Between the two of us, we can say 'Thank you!' in seven languages, but that seems hardly enough.

"In our present circumstances there are simply no adequate words to express our gratitude to you and your committee.

"Be assured that you all are eternally blessed by us! My time here seems a bit limited now but my wife is determined to find a way to return some of these dollars to continue the fund's blessed work."

"I've been meaning to write and thank you so much for the loan to help me through this challenge of breast cancer. Economic stresses have a way of undermining even the best attempt at healing. It's also wonderful to know that being a writer means something in this world, and that we're learning to take care of our own even in society might think we're irrelevent."

"Much thanks and love to all."

"I must also say that this whole business has made me very proud to be a writer. I can't imagine a group of, say, doctors or lawyers or accountants doing something like this - of course I suppose it is not so common for them to get into such situations. The very existence of this fund does all writers credit."

"To say that you have saved our lives would perhaps be putting it a bit strongly, but not by a great margin. At the time the check came we were actually at the point of having to decide whether to do the wash or buy toothpaste because there wasn't enough money for both; and I had a splitting head-ache for a week and hadn't the price of a bottle of aspirin. Now I can work again; it really is hard to concentrate on writing well when one is under so much pressure and stress."

"Your $1,500 loan has quite literally saved my life. Without it, I would have been evicted. By preventing that, you've given me a chance to come back to health and start writing again."

"I am deeply grateful for the financial assistance the committee has felt me worthy of. Sometimes one feels one's muse is an ungrateful one. It is at such time that the community of writers compensate. They are a virtual family where an actual one is lacking. My compulsion to pursue an ungrateful muse has put me in financial difficulties before. This time it appears she has literally broken my heart. I don't know what's next, medically speaking. Uncertainty is certain. The doctors say that with this or with that I may last a while and commit more poetry. From my heart, where my troubles reside, I am grateful to the Authors League and will dedicate each further work to them in secret epigraphs that translate 'thank you.' I'll do my best to repay you."