You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
Anne LamottMy gratitude for good writing is unbounded; Iām grateful for it the way Iām grateful for the ocean.
Anne LamottSo I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"
Anne Lamott