Matthew Davis

“Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus. Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
― Mark Twain