Kate

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Wine is bottled poetry.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson