“he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life”

“The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”

“Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written.”

“I want the key", he said. "The key to the universe. To life. To the future and the past. To love and hate. Truth. God. It's there. Inside of us. In the genome. The answer to every question. If I can find it. That's what I want," he finished, softly. "I want the key.”

“He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.”

“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”