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I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
- Richard Wright

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.
- Colm Tóibín

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
- John Cheever

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
- John Steinbeck

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
- Bram Stoker

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?
- Tennessee Williams

I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.
- Jonathan Ames

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
- Louis L'Amour

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
- Phyllis McGinley

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
- Ovid

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.
- Neil LaBute