"I enjoy having written, but writing can be painful." -George R.R. Martin

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself. -William Faulkner

"Give people a little bit of what they want, and a whole lot of what they don't know they want." -Fred Gallagher

"Ideas are cheap. Stories are dear." -Hugh Howey

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'" -John Greenleaf Whittier

"Thy life is a riddle,
full of rapture and sorrow.

To listen, to suffer,
to entrust unto tomorrow.

In one fleeting moment,
from the land doth life flow.

Yet in one fleeting moment,
for the new leaf doth grow.

In the same fleeting moment,
thou must live, die, and know."

-Susan Calloway, "Answers"