“The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art.” –Oscar Wilde
“Trust the tale, not the teller.” –D.H. Lawrence
“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.” –Sylvia Plath
“I knew this anyway, that my wish, indeed my continuing passion, would be not to point the finger in judgment, but to put a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other’s presence, each other’s wonder, each other’s human plight.” –Eudora Welty
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” –Joyce Carol Oates
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. The plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever covered is more significant of refinement than the most elaborately carved etagere or sideboard.” –Henry Ward Beecher
“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.” –Paul Theroux, New York Times.
