Joseph Stout

“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.”
― C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“When you painted on earth – at least in your earlier days – it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce