Claire Stanfield

“This is one aspect of a reporter's job that never ceases to fascinate and disturb me: facts that go unreported do not exist. How many massacres, how many earthquakes happen in the world, how many ships sink, how many volcanoes erupt, and how many people are persecuted, tortured and killed. Yet if no one is there to see, to write, to take a photograph, it is as if these facts had never occurred, this suffering has no importance, no place in history. Because history exists only if someone relates it. Every little description of a thing observed one can leave a seed in the soil of memory - that keeps me tied to my profession.”
― Tiziano Terzani, A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

“Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry