Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence…. Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never. - Franz Kafka

She was of divine stock, not of men, in the fore part a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in the midst a goat, breathing forth in terrible wise the might of blazing fire. - Homer’s Illiad

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Go not to the elves for counsel. For they will say both no and yes. - JRR Tolkein

When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek. - Nicholas Stuart Gray

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. - Hector Berlioz

Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive. - Susie Smith

Magic happens between the notes. - Linda Bott

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. - Hippocrates

Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, it's the only answer. - Tim Larkins

Make friends with physicists and mathematicians, writers. It pays off. - Brandon Sanderson

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. - John Hersey

I will put you, the writer, behind the wheel of the squad car, walking a beat, investigating crime scenes and sitting behind a desk writing reports. So, put on your Sam Brown belt, strap on your vest and let’s go experience what cops do and learn why they do it. - Patrick O’Donnell

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. - Jeff Cooper

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. - Gustave Flaubert

A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions. - Kevin Hood

Continuity isn’t actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don’t use it where you don’t need to. - Neil Gaiman