Daniel Green

“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.”
― John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

“Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
― William Faulkner