Shawn Augustyn

“Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it. Art no more belongs to the People and the Party than it once belonged to the aristocracy and the patron. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.”
― William Faulkner

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci