My favorite authors

"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
-J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix)

"If the composition's imperfect, why would so many pianists try to master it?"
"Good question," Oshima says, and pauses as music fills in the silence. "I have no great explanation for it, but one thing I can say: works that have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that very reason - or atleast they appeal to certain types of people. Just like you're attracted to Soseki's The Miner. There's something in it that draws you in, more than more fully realised novels like Kokoro or Sanshiro. You discover something about that work that tugs at your heart - or maybe we should say that the work discovers you."
-Haruki Murakami (Kafka On The Shore)

“She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.”
-Zadie Smith (On Beauty)

"Everything everybody does is so—I don't know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way."
-JD Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

"We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe."
-Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)

*These are my favorite authors that inspire me and keep me motivated whenever I get writer's block. I feed off their words, images, and adventures. I hope to create my own style and voice, but it's always great to have a few driving forces to help along the way.