Freya West

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I have finished my travels.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless