Chealsye Bowley

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willingfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, 'Listen to me'.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri

“Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.”
― Joe Meno, How the Hula Girl Sings: A Novel

“Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake