The Phoenix in the Fire

[text] “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” — J.D. Salinger,

[text] “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.” —Virginia Woolf