"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.” John Irving
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
