MJ

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas