"A writer only has a relatively small family of themes, and however hard you try to write about something else, they re-emerge like indestructible whack-a-moles." — David Mitchell, The Paris Review, Vol. 193
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance." — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711)
"I usually have a perception around dawn when I wake up. I have what I call the theater of morning inside my head, all these voices talking to me. When they come up with a good metaphor, then I jump out of bed and trap them before they’re gone." — Ray Bradbury
