Ala'a

“I’m the kind of person who has to experience something physically, actually touch something, before I have a clear sense of it. No matter what it is, unless I see it with my own eyes I’m not convinced. I’m a physical, not intellectual, type of person. Of course I have a certain amount of intelligence—at least I think I do. If I totally lacked that there’d be no way I could write novels. But I’m not the type who operates through pure theory or logic, not the type whose energy source is intellectual speculation.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey