Darlene

“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

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”
― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood