Rae

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
― Gary Provost

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain