Costas

“He wants to say. That is to say, he means. As in the French, “vouloir dire,” which means, literally, to want to say, but which means, in fact, to mean. He means to say what he wants. He wants to say what he means. He says what he wants to mean. He means what he says.”
― Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

“Hige sceal pe heardra, heorte pe cenre,
mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao.

( Will shall be the sterner, heart the bolder, spirit the greater as
our strength lessens. )”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“…no one is exactly sure of what they mean on any given subject until they have written their thoughts down; I similarly believe that we have very little understanding of what we have thought until we have submitted those thoughts to others who are at least as intelligent as ourselves.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre