JOSHUA

“Reading taught me that prison had been the crucible that had formed several great writers. Cervantes wrote much of Don Quixote in a prison cell, and Dostoyevski was a mediocre writer until he was sentenced to death, commuted within a few hours of execution, and then sent to prison in Siberia.”
― Edward Bunker, Education of a Felon: A Memoir

“in art your limitations are also your strengths. What you’re not good at, what you can’t think of, even the mistakes you make all contribute to your personal style. To have no such constraints is to be shapeless, she said, and to have no voice. This dictum helped explain Kay’s growing identity crisis.”
― Lionel Shriver, Should We Stay or Should We Go

“Everything in life stands on what has gone before. You do this or that because, at the moment, it seems what to do. You are faced with this or that because of what happened somewhere earlier in your journey of life. What happened earlier depends on what went before that. Who would dispute that nobody stands in a void or a vacuum?”
― Edward Bunker, Education of a Felon: A Memoir

“Remember, a fight isn’t just about surviving, it’s about prevailing. There’s a difference.”
― Jack Carr, True Believer