“These castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible.” ―Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” ―Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?” ― Sol Luckman, Beginner’s Luke

“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.” ― William Faulkner

“Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.” ― Ernest Hemingway