“She'd said, I don't get it, you don't have to tell me that. Why don't you just go ahead and imagine what you want? You don't need my permission. How can I know what's in your head?”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You can do it. You can be completely daunted and scared, and still, if you do the work to learn how to write, and do the work of writing, you can make stories people will read. You can change myths people think they’ve committed to memory. You can rock this place.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“You can make yourself into the person you wish you were. It takes work and small steps and brave goals. Set those brave impossible goals. Tell yourself you are on the right path. Don’t die today. Live. Stay alive. Keep pushing yourself into your best case.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com