Connect. Explore. Write. Read. “I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.”

— Isabel Allende
Connect. Explore. Write. Read. Are you ready to connect? “You never really understand a person until … you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
—Harper Lee
Connect. Explore. Write. Read. Do you want to explore everything? “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”

—William H. Gass
Connect. Explore. Write. Read. Must you write to know what you think? “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou
Connect. Explore. Write. Read. Can you lose yourself in a book? “Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.”

—Annie Proulx —Carl Sagan