Sarah

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi