Ryland Cronk

“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”
― Jane Smiley

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Love is not knowing what you're talking about.”
― Charles M. Schulz