I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating. ~Paul Anderson

I hope to entertain you. I love to read and write, though reading is a priority. I suppose I am too in love with books to have time to write any.

I care for art, in any of its forms and I am first and foremost a bohemian. If I have amused you, made you sad, enthralled you or made you scream in anger, then it will make me happy. There is nothing more important and more alluring than the aroma of an impressed human soul.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. ~C. N. Bovee