Edward Finch

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.”
― J. Donald Adams

“The trouble with life is, we never know when we are in the zone, until we think back, with jealous longing, years later.”
― Robert Black

“When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting