"I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands wielding paint and music and drama."
--JRR Tolkien

"What really knocks me over is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much though."
--Catcher in the Rye

"I am not sure that I exist, actually.
I am all the writers that I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved; all the cities I have visited."
--Jorge Luise Borges

"Somewhere in the world, someone is telling a story, a different story. A saga, a romance, a tale of unforseen death--it doesn't matter. It's sustaining the universe. That's why we're all still here: you can't stop stories from being told."
--Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus