It’s splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.
Gustave Flaubert, 1821 – 1880
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Louisa May Alcott, 1832 – 1888
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
Neil Gaiman
The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one.
Ben Okri