Shawn

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
― Henry James

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”
― Herman Melville

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor