Hello!

Feel free to browse my little library and read as you please. I'm a TMNT fanficcer, and probably always will be, so if that's your thing, then yay! Go green machine! :D Life is good. Carpe diem.

His and Yours,

PK

And, For Some Fun, Favorite Quotations!

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"[Fairy tale] does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbor, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. James Michener

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. Baltasar Gracián

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. Jack Smith

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves. C. Astrid Weber

If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness. Carrie Latet

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. André Gide, Journals, 1894

Sooo...in case you haven't noticed, I love J.R.R. Tolkien. He is not only an excellent writer, but a brilliant scholar. If you haven't read his books yet (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings trilogy, etc.) I highly recommend that you do! You won't regret it.

God Bless,

PK