“Write the book that only you can write.” —Geoff Dyer
“To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” —E.E. Cummings
“What kind of pilgrimage would it be if it didn’t contain some element of hardship and enigma? The quest is essential to the ritual. To orient ourselves at the interface of the visible and invisible worlds—which may be the purpose of all pilgrimages—we must embrace the search as well as its goal. If our journey into the heart (or vagina) of meaning resembles in any appreciable manner our last trip to the shopping mall, we’re probably doing something wrong.” —Tom Robbins
“If you are going to be a writer, you have to be one of the great ones…after all, there are better ways to starve to death.” —Gabriel García Márquez