My favorite characters are those who start off in a box--few options, societal constraints--but who transcend their circumstances and find that they are capable of becoming people they did not expect to be. Geraldine Brooks
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E.L. Doctorow
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. Neil Gaiman