Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
Guy Gavriel KayAs many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
Guy Gavriel KayThere are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.
Guy Gavriel Kay