"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."——Lewis Carroll 

"That isn't writing at all, it's typing."——Truman Capote

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”——Virginia Woolf

"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."——Henry David Thoreau

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."——Ernest Miller Hemingway

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."——J. D. Salinger

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."——Mary Flannery O'Connor