Rachna Im

“From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.”
― Rampo Edogawa, The Edogawa Rampo Reader

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of 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. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“The living world is a dream. The nocturnal dream is reality.”
― Rampo Edogawa

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus