Fabio Raffaelli

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg