“An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form.” IfsMenWorldWritingFirstsMeanPersonsIdeasReasonHandsRealityFormForceSeeingBalanceConversationMereDebateDiscriminationIsolatedSolitarySpeculationExtravaganceCorrespondenceDogmatismGuardingAppraise Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” IfsWritingBalance Author:Francoise Sagan
“Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?' Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.' It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom--it means the end of an empire.” WritingMeanArtSaidBookEndsFoundWallBalanceKingdomsVampireEmpiresTestamentJaceDoomOld TestamentPortentsWriting On The Wall Author:Cassandra Clare