Amanda

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials