“Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.”
“Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.”
“It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected. ”
“It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.”
“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”
“I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.”