“Language is a door. Words en-trance and are an entrance; they draw you in. When you read, the book you cradle disappears and the tales within unfold in your mind. Writing is a shelter of words and ...”

“Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.”

“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”

“It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .”

“The more we talk about our troubles and our fears, the more life we breathe into them". HS/el”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”

“Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that Id been rather in a lot of daft and amusing situations, so I set about writing them down. The only problem being that I was a lot bet...”

“Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that I’d been rather in a lot of daft and amusing situations, so I set about writing them down. The only problem being that I was a lot be...”