Sara Austin

“If writing didn't require thinking then we'd all be doing it.”
― Jeremiah Laabs

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead”
― Warren Adler

“The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition