Richard Derus

“How boundless is the horoscope of spring! One can read it in a thousand different ways, interpret it blindly, spell it out at will, happy to be able to decipher anything at all amid the misleading divinations of birds. The text can be read forward or backward, lose its sense and find it again in many versions, in a thousand alternatives. Because the text of spring is marked by hints, ellipses, lines dotted on an empty azure, and because the gaps between the syllables are filled by the frivolous guesses and surmises of birds, my story, like that text, will follow many different tracks and will be punctuated by springlike dashes, sighs, and dots.”
― Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

“Statistically, you've got a better chance of going to Hollywood and becoming a superstar in the movies than you do of becoming a successful writer.”
― Samuel R. Delany

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content”
― Émile Zola

“Suddenly the world began to wither and blacken, rapidly secreting from itself a hallucinatory dusk that infected all things. The plague of dusk expanded venomously and insidiously in all directions, creeping from one thing to another; whatever it touched at once decayed, blackened and disintegrated into rot. People fled from the dusk in silent panic, but the leprosy soon caught up with them, smearing a dark rash across their foreheads. They lost their faces, which fell away in great, shapeless stains, and so they went on, without features, without eyes, dropping mask after mask along the way, until the dusk teemed with those abandoned larvae, scattered behind them.”
― Bruno Schulz, Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories