Zarina Elahi

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
― Donna Tartt

“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors

“I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev