Mari J

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain