John

“Well, you know, I've been in so many writing workshops, writing classes, and to the right of me and to the left of me, there's always somebody much more talented than I am. And what I figured out is they're not willing to go through the rejection, which is enormous, and then the compromise that comes with, you know, editing your work. And so I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be 'talented'; I just had to be persistent, and that that was something I could control. The persistence.”
― Kate DiCamillo

“Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

“So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?”
― Sara Bareilles, The Blessed Unrest

“Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.”
― Stephen King