Roxy Gil

“The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.”
― Alfred Kazin

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― Andre Gide

“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.”
― Jules Renard

“Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ”
― Samuel Butler