[quote=@Fyodor Dosteovsky]There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.
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[quote=@Leo Tolstoy]I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.[/quote]

[quote=@Leo Tolstoy]A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.[/quote]

[quote=@Franz Kafka]Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.[/quote]

[quote=@Franz Kafka]What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.[/quote]

[quote=@William Faulkner]It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.[/quote]