Eva Dunsky

“I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.”
― Louisa May Alcott, The Selected Letters

“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories

“Manuscripts don't burn.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”
― Lorrie Moore