Priscilla Westover

“It astonished me later to find how the readers found Warrender’s war record so convincing and full when I had said so little – one real war veteran of Burma wrote to say how realistic he found it – but since then I’ve come to learn for myself how little one needs, in the art of writing, to convey the lot, and how a lot of words, on the other hand, can convey so little.”
― Muriel Spark, Loitering With Intent

“When people say that nothing happens in their lives I believe them. But you must understand that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.”
― Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

“IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?”
― HIllerman, Tony