Kelly Baron

“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

“The less he sees of other writers the more of a writer he will ultimately become. When he sees scarcely anyone except other writers, he is ready for New York.”
― Nelson Algren

“My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.”
― Mary Ruefle, Trances of the Blast

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