Sarah

“Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.”
― Marguerite Duras, Writing

“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.”
― Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Not only did the angry villagers hound their monsters to the edge of town, they reproached her for being vulnerable to the torches.”
― Susan Stryker

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
― Mae West