Laura

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham

“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?”
― Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty: A Friendship

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)”
― Elizabeth Bishop