“Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.” WholeDesireMysterySeaSpeechLipsBeachShellsEchoesSigh Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.” GivingStillsReasonWholeNovelGiving UpStuckBeachNot SureStubbornJunk Author:Alex Garland