“The great enemy of writing isn’t your lack of talent, it’s being interrupted by other people.” Joyce Carol Oates

"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington

from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."

Start by starting.

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

—Terry Pratchett

"My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you."

No Country f

“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”

-Kwame Anthony Appiah

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

-Joseph Campbell