“Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream―making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams.”
―Joseph Conrad
“If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting―only the deeply personal and familiar.”
―John Steinbeck
“Dream up something wild and improbable. Something beautiful and full of monsters.―All the best stories are.”
―Laini Taylor