Bastian

“عازف التشيللو في فِرقة أُم كلثوم يشارِك في الإيقاع العام للأغنية، ولا يمكن أن تميز نغمةَ آلتِه إلا في لحظاتٍ نادرة."
(الشيطان السارد)”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, عرش الديناري

“I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that's like gardening in the basement. I don't publish so much of what I write. I just seem to plow it back into the soil of what I write after it, rewriting and rewriting, thinking that somehow it gets better after the fifty-second-time around. I need to learn to abandon my writing. To let go of it. Dispose of it, like tissue.”
― J.R. Tompkins