“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston S. Churchill

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” – Miguel de Cervantes

“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we see images.” – John Gardner

“The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.” – Joyce Carol Oates

“If a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.” – Neil Gaiman