Pattie Sumera

“Even the donkeys were quiet.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.”
― Cornelia Funke

“She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess