Ellyn Hable

“Gertrude Stein remarked that one writes for oneself and for strangers, which I translate as speaking both to myself (which is what great poetry teaches us how to do) and to those dissident readers around the world who in solitude instinctually reach out for quality in literature, disdaining the lemmings who devour J. K. Rowling and Stephen King as they race down the cliffs to intellectual suicide in the gray ocean of the Internet.”
― Harold Bloom, The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life

“wären besetzt bis auf ein einziges großes; darin aber die Nacht zuzubringen wolle er ihm selbst nicht anraten, weil es nicht geheuer und Geister darin ihr Wesen”
― Brüder Grimm, Deutsche Sagen

“Set aside a hundred hours, which is about four days, by yourself, two or three times a year. You take some time off, a four-day weekend, away from work, away from the family, away from everybody. During the four days, you go off on your own to a nice, quiet place and spend some time pretty much in seclusion. Why? To catch up with yourself, with your plans, goals, and dreams. To think, be, read, envision. To check in with yourself and chill out.”
― Art Rios, Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional

“For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue