“Perhaps some day I’ll craw back home, beaten, defeated.  But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”

~Sylvia Plath

"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it."
~Charlotte Bronte

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”

~Robert Cormier

"To survive, you must tell stories."

~Umberto Eco