Lisa McCarthy

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end—as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary.”
― John Berendt