Kate Tedman

“Bad art and good art feel remarkably the same, while they're in progress.”
― Mantel Hilary

“The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this: Be not solitary; be not idle—which I would thus modify: If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume V: Appendices & Comprehensive Index

“It was the words that seemed to dislodge my most secret feelings.”
― Ferrante Elena

“And you, mother, stood behind me,
impatient to be going,
old at twenty-three, alone,
thin overcoat flapping.”
― Brian Patten, Armada