Christopher

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The writer should always serve as his own angleworm—and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.”
― John Hawkes

“But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale