Teri

“In my rare visits to writers conferences, the first thing I say to aspiring writers is that you need to stop thinking about getting published and start thinking about getting better. If you make the work good enough, it will get published.”
― Mara Altman, Tom Robbins: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Everyone in America is extremely concerned with hydration. Go more than five minutes without drinking, and you’ll surely be discovered behind a potted plant, dried out like some escaped hermit crab. When I was young no one would think to bring a bottle of water into a classroom. I don’t think they even sold bottled water. We survived shopping trips without it, and funerals. Now, though, you see people with those barrels that Saint Bernards carry around their necks in cartoons, lugging them into the mall and the movie theater, then hogging the fountains in order to refill them. Is that really necessary?”
― David Sedaris, Calypso

“If you don’t want your best work to die with you, you must train yourself to think and live differently than the ways we’ve been told artists behave. Don’t starve for your art. Help it thrive.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“if she looked deeply where the dark sucks in the sparks, she might see something useful. She thought she might see glee. Thank”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs