“Somethings Exist Whether You Believe In Them Or Not!”

“If at first you don't succeed, CHANGE THE RULES”

“Want! You must want something. What do you want?”

“In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, re-ordering them, weighing one against another. Pleasure also in the imagination of the story, the feeling that it could mean something. Mostly I was glad to find out that I could write at all. In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it.”

“If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.”

“Stand warned, lovelies. Initiates are encouraged to teach you cruelty. An you should thank them for it. For to understand cruelty is to know strength.”

“You were banging hard enough to wake the dead.""And you're lovely enough to rouse them.”