Willowy Being

“He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place

“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Death often is the point of life's joke.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

“You see,” said Tony, her voice still soft so as not to be overheard, but somehow fierce and angry, “it frightens me when people try to grab at us like that. I can’t sit still and just let people watch me and talk to me and ask me questions. You see,” she said again, as though trying to moderate her words and explain, “they want to pull us back, and start us all over again just like them and doing the things they want to do and acting the way they want to act and saying and thinking and wanting all the things they live with every day.”
― Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman