Rose

“For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation”
― Graham Greene

“Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don’t, they’ll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame.”
― Richard Siken

“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly