Guido

“I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, as to the business of being profound, that it is with writers as with wells; a person with good eyes may see to the bottom of the deepest, provided any water be there; and often, when there is nothing in the world at the bottom, besides dryness and dirt, though it be but a yard and half under ground, it shall pass however for wondrous deep, upon no wiser a reason than because it is wondrous dark.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub

“Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae

“Non debbo sperare niente. Scrivo questa frase e mi viene un'idea che è una speranza.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel