“He wasn't talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth. A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper."

Ursula K LeGuin

"I think that poets, artists, and lunatics have one thing in common. Nobody can tell them what to look at and how to look at it."

who feel life deeply in all of its dimensions,
who are awake and alive to both its
tragedy and its transcendence,
who put their heightened sensitivity
in the service of wakefulness and
aliveness for others."

(Unknown)

that a person who grows up loving fiction
spends most of her time living in a bubble?
And the bubble is so fragile-it bursts so easily.
But, never mind. The fiction lover is usually
capable of surviving. There are always new
bubbles to blow. Nothing can ever be completely
tragic for one who builds every reality into
her own private fantasy."

Louise Hurd