Alex Vaughn

“Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God, I hope not.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I was doing something that had become a pattern in my life, and I thought, Well I should go talk to a psychiatrist. When I got into the room, I asked him, 'Do you think that this process could, in any way, damage my creativity?', And he said ´Well, David, I have to be honest; it could´ And I shook his hand and left.”
― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

“A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I’m so great but because in order to get to me you have to take a path through literature, not through some books bought out of curiosity at the bookstore. A reader of mine has to have read other things.”
― César Aira

“I was going to either fail or thrive, and I was going to do it in full view of everyone I respected and resented.”
― David Chang, Eat a Peach