“You are blowing my mind.”

“Your life is your art.”

“Make a mess. Clean it up.”

“We are a force to be reckoned with”

“The world will not fall apart.”

“Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”

“Writing isn’t my life…it’s a lovely part of my life... but it’s not my life. My life is family, friends, fishing, food…things like reading and painting and all the rest of it, and you can’t really prioritize when you’re involved with family or you’re involved in fishing, you can’t say, ‘Oh, I really should be writing.”