Mara Grau

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow