Alex Vaughn

“You'll always lose when you play someone else's game.”
― David Chang, Eat a Peach

“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

“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

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road