Jadis

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft