Eric Banks

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write