Cherryl Taitt

“No writer should fail to reckon with modern reading habits. As each year until the fall of France more and more reading matter was obtruded on people’s notice, they had to protect themselves in some way from having their whole leisure time engrossed by it. How much of the averagely interesting book is actually read nowadays by the averagely interested person? It can only be a small part, and of that small part a good deal is lost because, though the eye goes through the motions of reading, the mind does not necessarily register the sense. Even when a book is being read with the most literal attention—a fair example is proof-reading by the author, his friends and members of the publishing firm and printing house—scores of errors pass by undetected.3”
― Robert Graves, The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose

“There was no fear, but there was also no curiosity. And that's when I realized there was also no beauty and no ugliness.”
― Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
― margery williams

“Sharks are like ax-murderers, Martin. People react to them with their guts. There’s something crazy and evil and uncontrollable about them.”
― Peter Benchley, Jaws