Daniel Archer

“Sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a nine-year-old, to understand my entrapment and escape it... Where did I find the courage to rebel, to change my life, live alone? I don't want to over-estimate all this, but damn it, I love that nine-year-old, whoever in hell he was.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something...”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“For the first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it would be better for his health.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Each of the men I have listed seized a bit of the quicksilver of life, froze it for all time and turned, in the blaze of their creativity, to point at it and cry, "Isn't this good!" And it was good.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You