Candle

“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“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

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

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