Kendi payıma, işe yeni başlamış biri olarak, bu konuda pek bir şey bilmiyorum - ama kanımca, kitap yazmak, herkes ne derse desin, bir şarkı mırıldanm… - Laurence Sterne

A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book.

I wish my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me;

[O]f all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best — I'm sure it is the most religious — for I begin with writing the first sentence — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.