Alex

“They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― audre lorde