"I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. "  - John Updike

“Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "- John Updike

“What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.”  ― John Gardner

"If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic."  - Toni Morrison

The beautiful Dartmoor pictures above are by my friend and village neighbor Sarah Howes. From top to bottom: Oncoming Traffic, Dartmoor Foal, The Guardian on the Path, and At the Cottage Window.