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“For it would seem – her case proved it – that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”


— Copyright © 1928 Virginia Woolf from Orlando: A Biography
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“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”


— Copyright © 2014 Donna Tartt from The Goldfinch

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“Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”


— Copyright © 2014 Ursula K. Le Guin from her acceptance speech for The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

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“I don’t know you, but I wish I did; I wish I could tell you how much I love you, love your eyes for reading this, love your hands for holding my words. I wish I could tell you in a way you would understand that so long as you read this, the world is not so terrible a place; that so long as we speak to each other, so long as there is love in the movement of a pen over paper and love in the movement of eyes over words, we will be all right, we will know each other, we will learn each other like songs.”


— Copyright © 2015 Amal El-Mohtar from her short story Pockets, published in Issue #2 of Uncanny Magazine