Mahlon

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“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

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire