When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. --Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." John Steinbeck
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade. Geraldine Brooks
"If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book." Lisa Jewell
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. Frank Yerby
I’m a huge believer in revision. The more times you write it, the more it becomes alive. Alice Hoffman
