Yuri

“..one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture form, and where it all begins.”
― Andrea Barrett

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet