Lyndie Blevins

“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individual writer will have to be more than ever careful that he isn't just doing badly what has already been done to completion. The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot