“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”

James Baldwin

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it... it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

C.S. Lewis

“...our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”

bell hooks

“Act so that there is no use in a center.”

Gertrude Stein

“Silence creates its own violence.”

Jeff Vandermeer

“Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.”

N.K. Jemisin

“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”

Maxine Hong Kingston

“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.”

Oscar Wilde

“All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.”

Gene Wolfe

“The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”

H.G. Wells