Roxy Gil

“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

“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

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
― Gustave Flaubert