Raven

“It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.”
― Philippe Claudel, Brodeck

“Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. ”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.”
― Johanna Sinisalo, Linnunaivot

“I learn things late–and only the hard way.”
― James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir