Candle

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison