Essayist Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

“I dreamed of setting it up out here in front of where I am sitting now, on the tripod that I would have ordered…

— Colm Toibin

“Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it,…

— Margaret Atwood

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".”

— Matthew Strecher

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity…

— J.J. Brown

“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated…

— Brassai

“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.”

— David Mitchell

“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing…

— John Banville

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker