Rissa Gomes

Write with conviction. Pick a side and be bold. And if you’re wrong, admit it.

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Go inside where silence is. Stay there. Let words bubble up.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead.

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader’s heart.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

The most important things are the hardest things to say.

To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive.