"I think that perhaps the ways that some books are written do not cater for us and therefore feel alienating"

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“It’s a beautiful thing to find your book at a community book store that has raised you”

“I want to write. That pretty much sums up my aspirations for my career”

“Giving people opportunities to write and exposing people to technical experts in the space can be career altering”

“It’s the prevalence of premonitions that got me started and I thought it would be cool if I could personify death”

“Africans are naturally in tune with the ancestral realm. We “feel” things. “know” things”

“Writing for me is when I feel the most connected to myself and everything around me. I’d do it even if no-one ever read anything I wrote”

Resonant Thoughts

"Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don’t stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bo…"

— Shirley Manson

Music1966

#justice

"When I hear the term Right wing I think of Hitler and Satan and Civil war."

— Kurt Cobain

Music1967–1994

#success

"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man."

— B. F. Skinner

Psychology1904–1990

#mind

"Art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, t…"

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Entertainment1932–1986

#life