Julie

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“What was it Danilov told me before I left? Something about how one day I would stand at a crossroads where I could choose the Light, which illuminated the sky with its warmth and golden glow - or the Darkness, which at first seemed soothing and inviting, but which would consume me in its flames. But do I have to wait for that crossroads? Isn't it present at every moment of my life?”
― Peter H. Fogtdal, The Tsar's Dwarf: A Novel

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway