April

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

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