Sean-patrick Burke

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents