We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
- Anaïs Nin.
when the rocking chair in front of the fire
simply demands an accompanying book.
- Theodore Roosevelt.
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning,
it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic …
Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways,
learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies,
reveals or displays it to its best advantage.
- Toni Morrison.