Donnette Riesgraf

“although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom to come from somewhere else, from the jungles, from the mountains, from China, from Pakistan. That will never happen. Every man must make his own Benaras.
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.”
― Margaret Atwood

“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas