“As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move… similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.” – Honore de Balzac (via Laini Taylor’s Diary: Photos by The Author of ‘Daughter of Smoke and Bone’ | Bookish Staff Blog)

“As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move… similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.” – Honore de Balzac

(via Laini Taylor’s Diary: Photos by The Author of ‘Daughter of Smoke and Bone’ | Bookish Staff Blog)