“You write from what you know, but you write into what you don’t know.”

— Grace Paley

“Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

— Neil Gaiman

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”

— Ralph Ellison