Fran

“If a man loves a girl who is in the first place young and inexperienced; who in the second place is educated with a background of caveman tradition, a middle-ground of poetry and romance, and a foreground of unspoken hope and interest all centering upon the one Event; and who has, furthermore, absolutely no other hope or interest worthy of the name - why, it is a comparatively easy manner to sweep her off her feet with a dashing attack.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

“I had come to the conclusion - based on experience - that the only real way of learning to write a novel was probably to write a novel.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Outlandish Companion

“Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain.”
― Ellen Forney

“It is much harder than you might think to show people your bottom.”
― Mark Forsyth, The Servant: A Short Story