Lora Ellis

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
― Pablo Picasso