Sublime

when you write, you don’t feel so alone,

It is humbling to see how much crossing out Dickens did, how much rewriting and cutting.

Writing can lead to reflection, reflection can lead to understanding, understanding can lead to happiness.

everyone has a voice.

Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in w

“When I quit The New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again,” said author Anna Quindlen. “But I am not nuts. I am happy.

To write the present is to believe in the future.