John

“I don't get philosophical. Love fish. Love sharks. Keep the water and their habitats as clean and protected as possible”
― Eugenie Clark

“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death: I pass indeed into their world.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“—Was I a swordsman then? sends Johnny. Or a poet? [Yes There is never one without the other]”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King