No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays in The Art of Writing
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what its going to be until Im under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesnt. But I dont sit back waiting for it. I work every day. – Alberto Moravia
It contributes greatly towards a mans moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. – Thomas Wolfe
