Kelly Baron

“The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.”
― Michael Lee

“Misfortune simply is. And when you wall it off, you do not have a clear conscience, because perhaps you are supposed to dedicate all your efforts and all your attention to it. And all you can say in your own defense is 'I want to live.”
― Czesław Miłosz, Milosz's ABC's

“Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.”
― Nelson Algren