Lloyd Alexander, on reading:

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

- Lloyd Alexander.

Sylvia Plath, on being a writer and an introvert:

 

We stayed at home to write,

to consolidate our outstretched selves.
 
- Sylvia Plath.

Born on this day – Hermione Baddeley:

Actress

November 13, 1906 – August 19, 1986

Happy Diwali - Wishing you peace, prosperity, and happiness:

Bringing light to all dark places...

Kurt Cobain, on inspiration:

Thank you for the tragedy.

I need it for my art.

- Kurt Cobain.

Author humor.... the Twilight version:

 

Geraldine Brooks, on writing:

I swim in a sea of words.

They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

– Geraldine Brooks.