Jodi Griffith Petretta

“Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“It's something to be anxious about," Manley said, "if you want to be anxious about something.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History