Peyton Stafford

“I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.”
― Kate Zambreno

“90% of the game is half mental.”
― Yogi Berra , The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

“My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.