Chris

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.”
― Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft