Annabelle

“During my sixteen years as a teacher of writing, I removed many adverbs and adverbial phrases from students' writing. I decided long ago that a writer who needlessly modifies words is either a nervous writer who does not believe in the worth of what they are writing or a vain writer who wants to be seen as discriminating and sensitive to nuances or meaning.”
― Gerald Murnane

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac