Joseph Camann

“That,’ Peregrine said, ‘is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revenger

“Honesty matters. Vulnerability matters. Being open about who you were at a moment in time when you were in a difficult or an impossible place matters more than anything. Having a place the story starts and a place it's going, that's important. Telling your story as honestly as you can and leaving out the things you don't need, that's vital.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Another piece of advice: I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work. So you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool. There are other people around who can do the mediocre meat and potatoes work that anybody can do. So let them do that. You make the art that only you can make. You tell the stories only you can tell.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”
― Paul Celan