Lindsey Brown

“And I went on reading; and, since if you read enough books you overflow, I eventually became a writer.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

“I wasn't eager to prod them into wakefulness, for the ghosts of one's past are best left to mutter undisturbed.”
― Ian Weir, Daniel O'Thunder

“But it’s what I call “The Valley Filled with Clouds” technique. You’re at the edge of the valley, and there is a church steeple, and there is a tree, and there is a rocky outcrop, but the rest of it is mist. But you know that because they exist, there must be ways of getting from one to the other that you cannot see. And so you start the journey. And when I write, I write a draft entirely for myself, just to walk the valley and find out what the book is going to be all about.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction

“And as my eyes grew heavy with sleep I wondered if there were not some larger play still, in which Kings and Emperors and Popes, though thinking they are in the center of the space, are really only in the margin...”
― Unsworth, Barry