Jackie

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket