Wrinting Quotes

“For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts.”
― Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris

“It was then that I understood something essential: once a book is published, it no longer belongs to you.
It takes on a life of its own.
It begins to walk on its own legs, like a child who has chosen a direction. And most of all, no reader simply reads it — they see themselves reflected in it. And what they see — or what they refuse to see — depends far more on them than on you.”
― Pierenrico Gottero, The Island of What Could Have Been: Back to the Middle Lands