
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.
—William Faulkner
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.
—William Faulkner
Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
—Barbara Kingsolver
Remember, you’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
—Billy Wilder
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
—Jim Carrey
It’s the kind of thing that can happen when you spend too much time bottled up inside your own head.
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
—Bob Marley
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
—E. L. Doctorow
Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
—G. K. Chesterton