"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
― Robertson Davies
"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
― Mark Twain