D.I. Smith, Dr. Mom

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. Every request for the clarification of the vague, every poke at smug banality, every pen stroke in a document under revision is the antidote… We still have the ability to rise up… keep reminding ourselves that representations of the world are never the world itself.

get up and go write.

write the books you have dreamed to read

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”

“Just because you are struggling doesn’t mean you are failing. Every great success needs some kind of struggle to get there.”

“People will love you, people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you.”

“I don’t think there’s a shortcut to writing novels.”

“You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.”

“It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.”