Amanda Piccininni

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway